Quotes About Wisdom

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

The older I get, the easier it is to just be present in the moment, and understand what a man is going through.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

There is a reason God limits man's days.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

Men, in general, are but great children.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.