Quotes About Wisdom

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

The man who isn't a pessimist is a damned fool.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.

Age doesn't make a man.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.