Quotes About Wisdom

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and blame.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched.

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.