Quotes About Wisdom

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.