Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Saroyan, William

4.

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

Evans, Bergen

5.

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

Thurber, James

6.

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

7.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

8.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

9.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Buddha

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

15.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

16.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

17.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

18.

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

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Cullen Hightower

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

22.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

25.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

29.

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

30.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato The Elder

31.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

32.

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

Blake, William

33.

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

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

36.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

37.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

38.

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

39.

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

Larson, Doug

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

50.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin