Quotes About Wisdom

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men

So much one man can do that does both act and know.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.