Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

2.

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

Ziggy

3.

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

4.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

5.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

6.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

8.

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

Evans, Bergen

9.

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

Larson, Doug

10.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

11.

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

12.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

13.

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

Mencken, H. L.

14.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

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 oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

Quintilian

20.

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

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

24.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

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

26.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

27.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Marx, Eleanor

29.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

30.

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

Bible

31.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

35.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

36.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

37.

Wise men still seek Him today.