Quotes About Wisdom

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can they.

The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.