Quotes About Wisdom

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

All men desire by nature to know.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking.

If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.