Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

2.

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

3.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

5.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

6.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

7.

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

8.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

9.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

10.

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

Saroyan, William

11.

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

12.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

13.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

14.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

15.

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

Evangel

16.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Noll, Chuck

20.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

21.

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

Cocteau, Jean

22.

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

Butler, Samuel

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

25.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

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

28.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

29.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

30.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

31.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

37.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

38.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

43.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

50.

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

Gabirol, Ibn