Quotes About Wisdom

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.