Quotes About Wisdom

What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.

Few men can afford to be angry.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." He planned his routine around waking up at 5 a.m. and asking himself "What good shall I do this day?

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.