Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

By others faults the wise correct their own.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Wisdom

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

Buddha

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Twain, Mark

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Marcel Proust

10.

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

11.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

12.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

13.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

14.

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

Proverb, Turkish

15.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Blake, William

17.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

18.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

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

Bouton, E. S.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

26.

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

27.

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

Thurber, James

28.

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

29.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

30.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

31.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

34.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

39.

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

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