Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

2.

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

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

Oprah Winfrey

4.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

5.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

6.

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

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

Evans, Bergen

8.

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

Bible

9.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

12.

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

Butler, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

Bouton, E. S.

15.

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

Buddha

16.

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

Larson, Doug

17.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

18.

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

19.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

20.

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

Proverb, Turkish

21.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

22.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

23.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

24.

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

Buddha

25.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Talmud, The

34.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Young, Andrew

38.

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

39.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Cullen Hightower

40.

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

Cato The Elder

41.

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

Pindar

42.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

43.

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

44.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

45.

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

46.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

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

Garbutt, Frank

48.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

49.

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

50.

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

Proverb, Chinese