Quotes About Wisdom

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi?ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.