Quotes About Wisdom

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

When I was a young man, near the beginning of my life, I looked around with true mindfulness and saw that all things are subject to decay.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history