Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Oprah Winfrey

2.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

3.

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

4.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

Adams, James Truslow

5.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

7.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

8.

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

9.

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

Epictetus

10.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

12.

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

13.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

14.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

15.

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

16.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

17.

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

Buddha

18.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Thurber, James

21.

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

Pindar

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

23.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

24.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

33.

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

34.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

36.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

37.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Cullen Hightower

43.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

44.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

45.

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

46.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

47.

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

48.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Camerounian