Quotes About Wisdom

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

Wise men say, only fools rush in. Wise men are so slow.

Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.