Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

2.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

3.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

4.

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

Basho, Matsuo

5.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

6.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

7.

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

8.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

9.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

11.

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

12.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

13.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

14.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

16.

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

Cheever, John

17.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

18.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

19.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

22.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

23.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

24.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

25.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

26.

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

27.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

28.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

29.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

30.

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

31.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

32.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

33.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

34.

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

35.

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

36.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

37.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

40.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

41.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

42.

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

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

45.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.