Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

2.

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

Cato The Elder

3.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

4.

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

Evans, Bergen

5.

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

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

8.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

9.

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

Pindar

10.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

14.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

15.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

16.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

17.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

18.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

19.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

20.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

21.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

23.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

27.

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

28.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

32.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

33.

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.

34.

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

Socrates

35.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

39.

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

40.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

45.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

46.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

47.

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

Evangel

48.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

50.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish