Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Turkish

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

2.

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

3.

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

Garbutt, Frank

4.

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

5.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

6.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

7.

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

Larson, Doug

8.

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

Zenrin

9.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

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

Proverb, Turkish

11.

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

Talmud, The

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

14.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

15.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

16.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

18.

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

Cato The Elder

19.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

20.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

27.

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

28.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

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

Saroyan, William

31.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

32.

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

33.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

35.

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

Marx, Eleanor

36.

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.

37.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

38.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

40.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

41.

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

42.

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

Ward, William A.