Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

2.

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

3.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

4.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Smiles, Samuel

5.

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

Butler, Samuel

6.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Oprah Winfrey

8.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

9.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

10.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

14.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

20.

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

21.

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

Garbutt, Frank

22.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

25.

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

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

28.

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

Buddha

29.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

30.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

31.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

32.

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

33.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

34.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

35.

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

Noll, Chuck

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

38.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

39.

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

Robbie Gass

40.

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

Bouton, E. S.

41.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

42.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

43.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

49.

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

Epictetus