Quotes About Wisdom

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

Books are men of higher stature.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.