Quotes About Wisdom

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.

There are three types of intelligence. The intelligence of man, the intelligence of animals and the intelligence of the military. In that order.

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

Great men should not have great faults.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.