Quotes about Wisdom
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
- William Osler
All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.
- Charles Spurgeon
A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
- Euripides
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
- Euripides
Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
- Ezra Taft Benson
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Beware the lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready assumption that the lovely façade must needs have lovely chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.
- Erica Jong
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Man's word is God in man.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
- Alice Hoffman
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
- Arthur Conan Doyle