Quotes About Wisdom

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.