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.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

2.

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

Thurber, James

3.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, Turkish

6.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

7.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

8.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

9.

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.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

13.

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

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

Levenson, Samuel

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

20.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

21.

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

Pindar

22.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

23.

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

Robbie Gass

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

28.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

30.

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

Mencken, H. L.

31.

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

Garbutt, Frank

32.

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

33.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

34.

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

Ziggy

35.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

36.

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

Butler, Samuel

37.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

38.

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

Cato The Elder

39.

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

40.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

41.

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

Cheever, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

45.

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

46.

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

Quintilian

47.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

48.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

49.

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

50.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark