Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

2.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

4.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

7.

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

8.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

9.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

12.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

14.

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

Ziggy

15.

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

16.

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

Robbie Gass

17.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

18.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

19.

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

Ward, William A.

20.

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

21.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

22.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

23.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

24.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Basho, Matsuo

28.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

Bible

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Confucius

35.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

36.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

41.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

45.

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

Blake, William

46.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

47.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich