Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

Cullen Hightower

3.

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

Proverb, Chinese

4.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

5.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

7.

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

8.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

12.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

13.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

14.

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

15.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

16.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

17.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

18.

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

19.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

21.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates

22.

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

23.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

24.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

27.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Oprah Winfrey

34.

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

Marx, Eleanor

35.

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

Epictetus

36.

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