Quotes About Wisdom

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

To come across a Master and to miss the Master is the greatest accident, very unfortunate, that can happen to a man.

There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?