Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Blake, William

2.

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

James Boswell

3.

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

Noll, Chuck

4.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

5.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Buddha

7.

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

Cocteau, Jean

8.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

9.

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.

10.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

11.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

14.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

15.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

16.

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

17.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

Quintilian

23.

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

Cheever, John

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

26.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

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

Levenson, Samuel

28.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

29.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

30.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

31.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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.

33.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

36.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

41.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

43.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

46.

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.