Quotes About Wisdom

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

What men have seen they know. . . .

Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Age will flatten a man.

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.

The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.