Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Proverb, Chinese

2.

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

3.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

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4.

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.

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5.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

6.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

7.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

10.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

11.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

12.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

13.

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

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14.

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

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15.

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

James Boswell

16.

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

17.

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

Levenson, Samuel

18.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

19.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

20.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

22.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

23.

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

Evans, Bergen

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

26.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

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

Buddha

29.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

30.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

31.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

33.

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

Oprah Winfrey

34.

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

35.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

36.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

37.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Saroyan, William

40.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

41.

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

Cullen Hightower

42.

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

Talmud, The

43.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

44.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

46.

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

47.

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

Talmud, The

48.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De