Quotes About Wisdom

Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

It takes more than a wise man to keep track of a foolish woman.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.