Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

2.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

3.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

4.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

6.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

7.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

8.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

9.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

11.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

14.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

15.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

17.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

19.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

22.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

23.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

26.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

27.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

28.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

29.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

30.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

32.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

34.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

35.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

36.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

37.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

38.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

40.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

41.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

42.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

43.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

44.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

45.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

46.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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