Quotes About Wisdom

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.