Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

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

Ward, William A.

4.

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

Cheever, John

5.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

6.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

7.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

8.

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

Cullen Hightower

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

12.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

16.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

17.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

18.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

23.

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

24.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

26.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

27.

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

Basho, Matsuo

28.

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

29.

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

Buddha

30.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

31.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

James Boswell

34.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

Larson, Doug

36.

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

37.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

38.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Saroyan, William

41.

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

42.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Spanish

48.

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

49.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Gabirol, Ibn