Quotes about Wisdom
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.
- Charles Spurgeon
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
- Charles Spurgeon
The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.
- Charles Spurgeon
To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.
- Confucius
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
- Dante Alighieri
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
- Edmund Burke
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
- Euripides
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.
- Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
- Euripides
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
- Euripides
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
- Euripides