Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

4.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

5.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

6.

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

Confucius

7.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

8.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

9.

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

Cocteau, Jean

10.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

12.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

13.

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

Larson, Doug

14.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

15.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

18.

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.

19.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

21.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

23.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

26.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

27.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

28.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

29.

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

30.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

31.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

32.

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

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

35.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

36.

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

37.

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

Cheever, John

38.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

39.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

40.

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

Evangel

41.

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

James Boswell

42.

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

43.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

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

45.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

46.

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

47.

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

Blake, William

48.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

49.

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

Ward, William A.

50.

Action should culminate in wisdom.