Quotes About Wisdom

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.

I even said it in a promo before, that a 'smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.' I've seen a lot of mistakes made.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

A wise man has to know his limitations. I figured that out pretty quickly.

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.