Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

2.

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

3.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

4.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

5.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

6.

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

Socrates

7.

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

Aristophanes

8.

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

9.

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

Marx, Eleanor

10.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Proverb, Camerounian

11.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

13.

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

James Boswell

14.

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

15.

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

Bible

16.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

17.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

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

Pindar

19.

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

Ziggy

20.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

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

22.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

25.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

28.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

29.

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

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

34.

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

35.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

36.

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

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

39.

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

40.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

41.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

42.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

43.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

45.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

46.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

47.

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