Quotes About Wisdom

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

A man who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot.-Groucho Marx A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.

Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.