Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

- Lee, Robert E.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

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2.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

3.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

4.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

5.

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

6.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

7.

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

8.

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

Ziggy

9.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

Zenrin

12.

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

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

16.

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

Garbutt, Frank

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

20.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

22.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

23.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

25.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

26.

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

27.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

28.

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

Blake, William

29.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Pindar

34.

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

35.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

36.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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

38.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

41.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

42.

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.

43.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

47.

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

Robbie Gass

48.

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.

49.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

50.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

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