Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

2.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

3.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

4.

A nation's treasure is its scholars.

Proverb, Yiddish

5.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

6.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

7.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

8.

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

Buddha

9.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Rowland, Helen

12.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

Pindar

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Ward, William A.

21.

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

22.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

23.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

24.

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

25.

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

Cocteau, Jean

26.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

27.

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

28.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

29.

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

Cato The Elder

30.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

31.

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

Talmud, The

32.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Thurber, James

33.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

Bible

37.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

38.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.