Quotes About Wisdom

Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Beware of a man of one book.

I've fallen in love with my horse. It's a safer bet. We all know from my illustrious past that I should be sticking to men with four legs.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The healthy man does not torture others.