Quotes About Wisdom

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.