Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

2.

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

Thurber, James

3.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

4.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

5.

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

Cato The Elder

6.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

7.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

8.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

9.

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

Socrates

10.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

12.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

13.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

15.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

16.

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

17.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Robbie Gass

19.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

Zenrin

22.

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.

Bible

23.

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

Evans, Bergen

24.

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

Cocteau, Jean

25.

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

26.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

27.

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

28.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

29.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

30.

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

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

36.

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

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

39.

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Evangel

41.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

42.

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

43.

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

Marx, Eleanor

44.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Kraus, Karl

48.

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

49.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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