Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

2.

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

Marx, Eleanor

3.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

4.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

5.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

6.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

7.

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

Cullen Hightower

8.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

9.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

10.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

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

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Zenrin

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

20.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Turkish

28.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

29.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

30.

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

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Bible

32.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

33.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

34.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

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

Evans, Bergen

36.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

37.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

38.

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

Ward, William A.

39.

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

Saroyan, William

40.

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

41.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

45.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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