Quotes about Wisdom
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
— George Bernard Shaw
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
— George Eliot
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
— Elie Wiesel
He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men.
— Cicero
Man by Nature desires to know.
— Aristotle
A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
— Confucius
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
— Confucius
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
— George Washington