Quotes About Wisdom

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

The wisest man may be a blind father.

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.