Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Epictetus

2.

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

Oprah Winfrey

3.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

4.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Ziggy

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

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

12.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

13.

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

14.

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

Pindar

15.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

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

17.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

18.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

19.

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

20.

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

Bouton, E. S.

21.

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

30.

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

Quintilian

31.

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

Robbie Gass

32.

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

Buddha

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Cato The Elder

35.

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

Aristophanes

36.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

39.

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

Garbutt, Frank

40.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

41.

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

42.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

44.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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