Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

- Chaucer, Geoffrey

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ziggy

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

11.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

14.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

15.

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

16.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

17.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

18.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

19.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

20.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

21.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

24.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

25.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

26.

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

27.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

28.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

29.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

30.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

32.

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

33.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

34.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

35.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

36.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

37.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

40.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

42.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

43.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

44.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

45.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

47.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

48.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

49.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

50.

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