Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

3.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

4.

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

5.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

6.

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

Young, Andrew

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

9.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

10.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

11.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

12.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

16.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

19.

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

20.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

21.

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

22.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

23.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

24.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

25.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

Basho, Matsuo

28.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

29.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

30.

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

31.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Evans, Bergen

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

43.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

44.

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

Kraus, Karl

45.

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

46.

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

Socrates

47.

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

48.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

49.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.