Quotes About Wisdom

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

Man thinks, God directs.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

The confession of one man humbles all.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

Man by Nature desires to know.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.