Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

2.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

3.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

4.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

5.

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

6.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

7.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

8.

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

Bible

9.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

11.

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.

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

15.

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

Buddha

16.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

17.

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

18.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

19.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

20.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

21.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

22.

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

Young, Andrew

23.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

24.

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

25.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

28.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

29.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

31.

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

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

Cocteau, Jean

34.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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.

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

Ward, William A.

37.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

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

Epictetus

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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.

41.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

42.

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

43.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

44.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

45.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

47.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

48.

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

49.

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

50.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De