Quotes About Wisdom

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

I care more about what God knows than what man says.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.