Quotes About Wisdom

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

I would not educate Donald trump. He is a very educated man.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of 20 is a fool.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.