Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Quintilian

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

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

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

12.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Thurber, James

15.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

16.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

17.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

18.

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

19.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

20.

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

21.

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

Ward, William A.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

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

Bible

28.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

29.

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

30.

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

Zenrin

31.

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

32.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

33.

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

34.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

35.

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

Larson, Doug

36.

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

37.

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

Kraus, Karl

38.

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

James Boswell

39.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

40.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.