Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Talmud, The

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

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

Kraus, Karl

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Marx, Eleanor

11.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

12.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

13.

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

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

19.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

20.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

21.

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

22.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

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

Mencken, H. L.

24.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

25.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

26.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

27.

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

28.

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

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

30.

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

31.

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

Evans, Bergen

32.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

33.

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

Bible

34.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

35.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

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

Quintilian

46.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

47.

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

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

49.

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

50.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish