Quotes About Wisdom

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.