Quotes About Wisdom

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.