Quotes About Wisdom

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest.

One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.