Quotes About Wisdom

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well." -Uncle Charles

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.