Quotes about Wisdom
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
— John Wesley
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
— Joseph Addison
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
— Cicero
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
— Cicero
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
— Milan Kundera
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
— Oscar Wilde
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
— RC Sproul Jr.