Quotes About Wisdom

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you're a better man than I

Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.