Quotes About Wisdom

I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. -James Oliver 'Tomorrow I will live,' the fool does say; tomorrow itself is late; the wise live yesterday.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Young men preen. Old men scheme.