Quotes About Wisdom

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.

The true science and study of mankind is man.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.