Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

- Elizabeth, Queen

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

6.

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

Thurber, James

7.

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

8.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

9.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

10.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Talmud, The

12.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

13.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

15.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

16.

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

Pindar

17.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

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

19.

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

Ziggy

20.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Confucius

22.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

24.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

26.

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

Marx, Eleanor

27.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

28.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

34.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

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

Robbie Gass

36.

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

37.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

38.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

39.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

40.

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

41.

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

Talmud, The

42.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

45.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

46.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

47.

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

48.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

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

Cocteau, Jean