Quotes About Wisdom

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

As long as man's beliefs, or any part of them, are based on error, he is not completely free, for the chains of error bind his mind.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.