Quotes About Wisdom

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.