Quotes About Wisdom

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Euripides says,-Who knows but that this life is really death,And whether death is not what men call life?

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.