Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Evangel

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

2.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

3.

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

Cocteau, Jean

4.

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.

5.

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

Zenrin

6.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

7.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

8.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

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

Larson, Doug

11.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

14.

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

15.

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

16.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

17.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

19.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Confucius

22.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

23.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

24.

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

Ward, William A.

25.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

26.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

27.

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

28.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

29.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

30.

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

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

39.

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

Thurber, James