Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bouton, E. S.

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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

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 learning what to overlook.

James, William

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

Socrates

10.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

11.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

12.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

13.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

14.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

15.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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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

18.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

19.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

20.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

21.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Pindar

23.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Quintilian

28.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

Cato The Elder

31.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

32.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

33.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

34.

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

Evans, Bergen

35.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

40.

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

41.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

42.

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

Bible

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

45.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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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

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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

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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

49.

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

Young, Andrew

50.

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

Cullen Hightower