Quotes About Wisdom

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

A man who will be the public leader, must know how to be the public follower.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.