Quotes About Wisdom

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Educate the heart. Let us have good men.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.