Quotes About Wisdom

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!" said Aragorn sternly. "You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.