Quotes About Wisdom

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.

A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

Man must suffer to be wise.