Quotes About Wisdom

Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

Experience really does make you better, man.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

I'm 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.