Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Elizabeth, Queen

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

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.

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

Buddha

11.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

14.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

15.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

16.

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

17.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

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

Proverb, Camerounian

19.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

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

Proverb, Turkish

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.

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

Ward, William A.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

27.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

28.

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

Butler, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Aristophanes

31.

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

32.

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

Confucius

33.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

34.

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

35.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

36.

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

Cullen Hightower

37.

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

38.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

Proverb, African

39.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

40.

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

41.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

Noll, Chuck

47.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant