Quotes About Wisdom

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

Remember always, that man is a creature whose reason is often darkened with error.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

Men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

A great man is one sentence.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.