Quotes about Wisdom
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
— Milan Kundera
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
— Leo Buscaglia
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
— Tertullian
The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
— Confucius
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
— Aldous Huxley
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
— Aristotle
Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.
— Charles Spurgeon
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
— Epicurus
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
— Hippocrates
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
— Jim Rohn
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
— Marcus Aurelius