Quotes About Wisdom

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.