Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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

10.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

11.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

12.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

13.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Clemenceau, Georges

14.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

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

Basho, Matsuo

23.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

24.

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

25.

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

Buddha

26.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

27.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

29.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

34.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Bouton, E. S.

38.

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

Proverb, Spanish

39.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

46.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Hoagland, Edward

47.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

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

49.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

50.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca