Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

- Proverb, African

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

2.

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

3.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

4.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.

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

6.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

7.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

8.

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

Noll, Chuck

9.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

15.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

16.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

Proverb, Turkish

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

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

28.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

29.

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.

30.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

31.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

32.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

33.

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

Cullen Hightower

34.

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

Ward, William A.

35.

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

36.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

38.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

39.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

40.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Quintilian

44.

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

45.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

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

48.

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

Basho, Matsuo

49.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

50.

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