Quotes About Wisdom

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

A man's just gotta know his limits

Faculty X is a sense of reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it—fragmentary and uncertain though it is—that distinguishes man from all other animals.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.

To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Wise men still seek Him today.

And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.