Quotes About Wisdom

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

No man should be angry with what is true.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

Your inner being is he who men call God.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister