Quotes About Wisdom

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

...the infallible man does not exist.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

What society needs is broad men sharpened to a point.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them