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.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

2.

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.

3.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

4.

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

5.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

7.

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

Oprah Winfrey

8.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

9.

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

Talmud, The

10.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

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

13.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

17.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

18.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

19.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

20.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

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.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

27.

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

28.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

29.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

30.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

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

Zenrin

32.

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

33.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

37.

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

Cheever, John

38.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

39.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

41.

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

James Boswell

42.

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

43.

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

Cullen Hightower

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 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

46.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

47.

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

48.

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

Cocteau, Jean

49.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

50.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita