Quotes About Wisdom

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.