Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Cheever, John

7.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

10.

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

Talmud, The

11.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

13.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

19.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

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

25.

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

Marx, Eleanor

26.

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

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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

28.

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

29.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Epictetus

31.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

32.

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

Thurber, James

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Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

34.

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

35.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

36.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

37.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

38.

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