Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Zenrin

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

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

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

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

Boileau, Nicholas

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

15.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

16.

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

17.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

18.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

19.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

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

Pindar

21.

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

Young, Andrew

22.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Aristophanes

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

26.

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

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

29.

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

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Evangel

33.

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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

37.

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

Oprah Winfrey

38.

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

39.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

41.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

43.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

46.

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

47.

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

48.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank