Quotes About Wisdom

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.