Quotes About Wisdom

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will believe it and live up to it.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time