Quotes About Wisdom

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.