Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

- Smollett, Tobias G.

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

3.

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

Aristophanes

4.

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

Blake, William

5.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

6.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

7.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

8.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

9.

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

Larson, Doug

10.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

11.

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

12.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

14.

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

15.

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

Robbie Gass

16.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

17.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

18.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

20.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

21.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

23.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

26.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

James Boswell

29.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

Quintilian

31.

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

32.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

33.

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

Cullen Hightower

34.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Socrates

40.

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

41.

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

Young, Andrew

42.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Turkish

46.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

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

Thurber, James

48.

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