Quotes About Wisdom

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Men are but children of a larger growth.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

No man is the wiser for his learning

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.