Quotes About Wisdom

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

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

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

While men believe themselves to be seeking truth for its own sake, they are in fact seeking life in truth.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.