Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

3.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

4.

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

5.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

6.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

7.

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

8.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

9.

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

Proverb, Spanish

10.

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

11.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

12.

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

Marx, Eleanor

13.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

14.

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

15.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

16.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

19.

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

Evans, Bergen

20.

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

Ward, William A.

21.

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

Cullen Hightower

22.

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

Aristophanes

23.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

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

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

27.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

28.

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

29.

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

Oprah Winfrey

30.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

32.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Kraus, Karl

36.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

38.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

39.

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

40.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

41.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

43.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

44.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

45.

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

Cocteau, Jean

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

50.

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