Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

2.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

5.

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

Larson, Doug

6.

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.

7.

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

James Boswell

8.

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

Ward, William A.

9.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

11.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

12.

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

13.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

14.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

15.

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

Robbie Gass

16.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

17.

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

18.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

21.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

22.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Ziggy

27.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

33.

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

34.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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