Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

2.

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

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3.

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.

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4.

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

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5.

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

Marx, Eleanor

6.

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

Talmud, The

7.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

8.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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9.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

Socrates

11.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

12.

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

Evans, Bergen

13.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

19.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

20.

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

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21.

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

22.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

23.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

24.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

26.

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

Thurber, James

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

30.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

37.

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

Pindar

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

41.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

45.

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

Basho, Matsuo

46.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

47.

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

Zenrin

48.

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