Quotes about Wisdom
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
No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.
— George Washington
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
— Henry David Thoreau