Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Wisdom

1.

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

Butler, Samuel

2.

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

3.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

4.

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

5.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

6.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

7.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

9.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

10.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

11.

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

Cullen Hightower

12.

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

13.

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

Cato The Elder

14.

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

18.

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

Noll, Chuck

19.

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

Zenrin

20.

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

Kraus, Karl

21.

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.

22.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

23.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

24.

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

Ziggy

25.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

26.

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

Young, Andrew

27.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

28.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

32.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

33.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

34.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

36.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

37.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

38.

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

Thurber, James

39.

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

Blake, William

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Elizabeth, Queen

44.

Wisdom is found only in truth.