Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

2.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

3.

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

4.

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

Quintilian

5.

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

Proverb, Turkish

6.

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

7.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

9.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Saroyan, William

13.

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

14.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

15.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Twain, Mark

16.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

17.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

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

19.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

20.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

22.

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

Oprah Winfrey

23.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

25.

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

26.

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

Cullen Hightower

27.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

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

Bouton, E. S.

29.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

30.

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

31.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

32.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

35.

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

Levenson, Samuel

36.

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

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

39.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

42.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

43.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

44.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

45.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

48.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

49.

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

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De