Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Quintilian

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

2.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

3.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

4.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

7.

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

Levenson, Samuel

8.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

10.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

11.

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

Quintilian

12.

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

13.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

14.

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

Evans, Bergen

15.

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

Marx, Eleanor

16.

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

Saroyan, William

17.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

23.

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

24.

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

Confucius

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

Bouton, E. S.

27.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

35.

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

Talmud, The

36.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

37.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

38.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

44.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

45.

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

Larson, Doug