Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

2.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

3.

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

4.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

5.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

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

7.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

8.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

9.

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

Zenrin

10.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

11.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

12.

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

13.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

14.

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

Ward, William A.

15.

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

16.

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

Levenson, Samuel

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Kraus, Karl

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

23.

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

24.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

25.

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

26.

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

Basho, Matsuo

27.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

31.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

36.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Cheever, John

38.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

41.

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

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, --something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Connolly, Cyril

44.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

45.

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

46.

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

Marx, Eleanor

47.

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

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De