Quotes About Wisdom

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

Be kind to an old man.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

The true man of the past waited upon Heaven when dealing with people and did not wait upon people when dealing with Heaven.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.