Quotes About Wisdom

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

My mother told me 'man on top, woman underneath.' For years my husband & I slept in bunk beds.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.