Quotes about Wisdom
Man must suffer to be wise.
- Cicero
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
- Mark Twain
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
- Richard Baxter
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
- Henry David Thoreau
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
- Henry Parry Liddon
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
- Herman Melville
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
- John Lennon
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
- John Tillotson
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
- St. Augustine
I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.
- St. John Chrysostom
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
- Thomas a Kempis