Quotes About Wisdom

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Look what I'm dealing with, man, I'm dealing with fools and trolls.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.