Quotes About Wisdom

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

The superior man limits his achievements.

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.