Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Garbutt, Frank

2.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

3.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

4.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

7.

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

Buddha

8.

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

9.

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

James Boswell

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Evans, Bergen

14.

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

15.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

16.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

17.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

18.

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

Saroyan, William

19.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

20.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

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

22.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

23.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

24.

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

Young, Andrew

25.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

26.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

27.

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

28.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

29.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

30.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Socrates

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.

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

Thurber, James

35.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

36.

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

37.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

38.

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

Butler, Samuel

39.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

40.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

41.

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

42.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

45.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

46.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

48.

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