Quotes about Wisdom
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
— CS Lewis
I know so much about men because I went to night school.
— Mae West
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
— Pope Francis
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
— Oswald Chambers
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.
— James Madison
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
— James Madison
There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.
— John Bunyan
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
— John Calvin
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton