Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

14.

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

15.

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

Garbutt, Frank

16.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

18.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

21.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

22.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

24.

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

Zenrin

25.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

26.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

27.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

28.

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

29.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

31.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

32.

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

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

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

Cocteau, Jean

37.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

40.

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

Saroyan, William

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.