Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Clemenceau, Georges

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

3.

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

Bouton, E. S.

4.

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

5.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

6.

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

Cocteau, Jean

7.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

8.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

9.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

10.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

12.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

16.

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

17.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

21.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

27.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

28.

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

Ward, William A.

29.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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.

31.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

32.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

33.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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

Cheever, John

35.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

36.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

37.

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

Pindar

38.

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

Socrates

39.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

40.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

42.

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

Marx, Eleanor

43.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

45.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

46.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

48.

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

Levenson, Samuel

49.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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