Quotes About Wisdom

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

After listening to you for slightly more than one hour, I can tell that you are a strong and intelligent man and that you want peace