Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

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

Young, Andrew

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

Cheever, John

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

Proverb, Camerounian

10.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

11.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

15.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

16.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

Quintilian

18.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

20.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

23.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

Marx, Eleanor

25.

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

Epictetus

26.

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.

27.

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

Evans, Bergen

28.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Borland, Hal

29.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

30.

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

Proverb, Turkish

31.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

32.

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

Buddha

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

38.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Ziggy

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

43.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

45.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

46.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

47.

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

Aristophanes

48.

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

49.

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

Bible

50.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis