Quotes About Wisdom

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

A man has to know his limitations.

Never insult seven men if you're only carrying a six shooter.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!