Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

2.

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

Bouton, E. S.

3.

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

Blake, William

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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]

Bible

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Talmud, The

9.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

10.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Saroyan, William

15.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

16.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

17.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

18.

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.

19.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

20.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

21.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Buddha

24.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

25.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

26.

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

Evangel

27.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

28.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

29.

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

Ward, William A.

30.

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

31.

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

Young, Andrew

32.

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

33.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

34.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

35.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

36.

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

37.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

38.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

39.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

43.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Zenrin

45.

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

Buddha

46.

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

Pindar

47.

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

48.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

49.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

50.

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

Cullen Hightower