Quotes About Wisdom

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

The age, you know. A man can be wiser and wiser, and a woman is older and older.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.