Quotes About Wisdom

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.