Quotes About Wisdom

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.