Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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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

2.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

3.

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

Cheever, John

4.

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

Robbie Gass

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

8.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

9.

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

10.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

11.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

14.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

15.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

18.

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

Basho, Matsuo

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

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

Quintilian

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Marx, Eleanor

27.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

28.

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

29.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

31.

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

32.

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

Socrates

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

36.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

37.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

38.

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

39.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

40.

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

Aristophanes

41.

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

42.

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

Ward, William A.

43.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

44.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

45.

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.