Quotes About Wisdom

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.