Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

2.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

3.

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

Bible

4.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

5.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

10.

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

11.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

12.

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.

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

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

Maeterlinck, Maurice

15.

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

16.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

17.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

18.

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

19.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

20.

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

21.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

22.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

23.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

24.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

29.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

30.

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

Elizabeth, Queen

31.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Pindar

35.

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

Young, Andrew

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Cato The Elder

39.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

40.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

41.

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

Bible

42.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Bible

44.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

45.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

46.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

49.

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

Saroyan, William

50.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.