Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

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2.

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

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3.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

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4.

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

5.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

6.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

7.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

8.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

9.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

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

15.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

16.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

Quintilian

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Proverb, Turkish

21.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

22.

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

Zenrin

23.

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

Larson, Doug

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

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]

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29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Cullen Hightower

31.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

32.

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

33.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Noll, Chuck

35.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

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

Blake, William

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.

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

42.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

44.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

45.

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

46.

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

Levenson, Samuel

47.

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

48.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

49.

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

Talmud, The

50.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward