Quotes About Wisdom

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The world exists for the education of each man.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.