Quotes About Wisdom

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.

As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads."

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.