Quotes About Wisdom

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Too much philosophy makes men mad.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

Man's word is God in man.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.