Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Mencken, H. L.

2.

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

3.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

4.

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

Pindar

5.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

7.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

8.

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

Larson, Doug

9.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

12.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Buddha

18.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

21.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Talmud, The

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Ziggy

27.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

30.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

32.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Butler, Samuel

35.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

37.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

39.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

40.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

41.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

42.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

43.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

44.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

45.

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

46.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

47.

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

Evans, Bergen

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

50.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.