Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.

Larson, Doug

2.

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

Marx, Eleanor

3.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

4.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

5.

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

Marilyn vos Savant

6.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

7.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Bouton, E. S.

8.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Evans, Bergen

11.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

12.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

13.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

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

16.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

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

22.

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

Epictetus

23.

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

Blake, William

24.

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

25.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

26.

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

Ziggy

27.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

28.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

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

30.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

31.

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

Cheever, John

32.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

36.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

37.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

38.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

44.

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

Bible

45.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.