Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

2.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

3.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

4.

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

Proverb, Chinese

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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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

11.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

12.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

15.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

16.

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

Aristophanes

17.

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

18.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

19.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

24.

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

Robbie Gass

25.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

26.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Saroyan, William

29.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

30.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

31.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

34.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

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

James Boswell

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

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

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

41.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

42.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

43.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

46.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

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

48.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

49.

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

Blake, William

50.

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