Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

2.

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

Evans, Bergen

3.

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

Zenrin

4.

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

5.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

6.

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

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Pindar

9.

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

10.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Bible

12.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

13.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

14.

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

James Boswell

15.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

16.

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.

17.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

18.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

19.

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

Kraus, Karl

20.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

21.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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.

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

Aristophanes

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

29.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

Ziggy

31.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Levenson, Samuel

35.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

36.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

37.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

38.

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

39.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

40.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

41.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

42.

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

Epictetus

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

46.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

47.

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

Saroyan, William

48.

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