Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Bible

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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.

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

Pindar

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

Talmud, The

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

Robbie Gass

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

11.

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

Talmud, The

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Cato The Elder

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Kraus, Karl

17.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

18.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

19.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

20.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

21.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Bouton, E. S.

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

25.

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

Basho, Matsuo

26.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

27.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

31.

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

Ward, William A.

32.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

33.

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

34.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

35.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

36.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

37.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

39.

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

Cullen Hightower

40.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

41.

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

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Larson, Doug

44.

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

Buddha

45.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

46.

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

Garbutt, Frank

47.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

49.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.