Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

2.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

3.

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

Pindar

4.

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

5.

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

Quintilian

6.

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

Evans, Bergen

7.

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

8.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

9.

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

10.

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.

11.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

12.

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

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Talmud, The

15.

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

Bible

16.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

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

22.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

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

Evangel

26.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

27.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

28.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

29.

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.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Cheever, John

31.

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

Ziggy

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

34.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

35.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Cocteau, Jean

38.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

39.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

41.

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

Basho, Matsuo

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Twain, Mark

44.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

45.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

46.

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

Levenson, Samuel

47.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

48.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

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

50.

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