Quotes About Wisdom

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

Afflictive emotions — our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear — can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We