Quotes About Wisdom

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.