Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

James Boswell

2.

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

Thurber, James

3.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

4.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

5.

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

Cato The Elder

6.

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

7.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

8.

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

9.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

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

Noll, Chuck

11.

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

12.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

13.

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

Young, Andrew

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Bible

16.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

20.

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.

21.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

22.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

23.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

24.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

25.

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

Robbie Gass

26.

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

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

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

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

34.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

35.

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

Garbutt, Frank

36.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

37.

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

38.

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

Aristophanes

39.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

41.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

42.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

43.

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

Oprah Winfrey

44.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

45.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

46.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

48.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

49.

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

50.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William