Quotes About Wisdom

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Pure truth no man has seen, nor ever shall know.

A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.