Quotes about Wisdom
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
— Marcus Aurelius
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
— Marcus Aurelius
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
— Cicero
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
— Mark Twain
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
— Martin Luther
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
— Phillips Brooks
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
— Phillips Brooks
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
— Publilius Syrus
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
— Publilius Syrus
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
— Publilius Syrus
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
— Oscar Wilde