Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

2.

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

3.

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

Oprah Winfrey

4.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

5.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

6.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

7.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

8.

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

9.

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

Talmud, The

10.

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.

11.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

12.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Ziggy

13.

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

Levenson, Samuel

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

16.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Kraus, Karl

21.

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

Basho, Matsuo

22.

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

23.

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

Buddha

24.

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

Pindar

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

30.

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

31.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

35.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

38.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

39.

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

Buddha

40.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

41.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

42.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

43.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

44.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

48.

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

Mencken, H. L.

49.

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

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De