"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by."
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"Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by."
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
"I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God."
"I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today."
"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."
"I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others."
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
"All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom."
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
"The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done something for themselves and their fellow men."
"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are."
"We cannot learn men from books."
"No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure."
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
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