Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Epictetus

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pindar

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

10.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

13.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

14.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

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

Ward, William A.

17.

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

Cullen Hightower

18.

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

19.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

20.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

21.

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

22.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

23.

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

Young, Andrew

24.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

25.

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

Marx, Eleanor

26.

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

27.

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

28.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cato The Elder

30.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Kraus, Karl

33.

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

34.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

36.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

37.

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

Evans, Bergen

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

45.

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

46.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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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

48.

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

49.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De