Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wisdom

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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

Young, Andrew

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.

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

Saroyan, William

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

10.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

13.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

14.

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

Cocteau, Jean

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

17.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

18.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

21.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

24.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

27.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

30.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quintilian

31.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

32.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

33.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Bhagavad Gita

34.

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

35.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

36.

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

37.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

38.

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

Bible

39.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Kraus, Karl

40.

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

Buddha

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

Elizabeth, Queen

42.

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

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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

44.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

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.

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

Talmud, The

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