Quotes About Wisdom

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

No man ever became wise by chance.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.