Quotes About Wisdom

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

Educated men are so impressive.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.