Quotes About Wisdom

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Always humble yourself lovingly before God and man, because God speaks to those who are truly humble of heart, and enriches them with His gifts.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.