Quotes About Wisdom

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

The man who never reads lives only one.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

I have always advised men to read

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.