Quotes about wisdom
wisdom war government-debt
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson
wisdom men ideas
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
wisdom
You are what you seek. Robert Holden
wisdom people way
People will treat you the way YOU treat you.
wisdom shine-on shining
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on. Robert Herrick
wisdom people ambitious
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Robert Louis Stevenson
wisdom believe sacrifice
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. Voltaire
wisdom philosopher lovers
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
wisdom freedom fool
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
wisdom lonely men
Virtuous men alone possess friends.
wisdom clever men
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
wisdom humble pride
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. William Tecumseh Sherman
wisdom littles mankind
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge
wisdom men consent
No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man. William Lloyd Garrison
wisdom all-time packs
Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack. William Camden
wisdom italian bird
The early bird catches the worm.
wisdom philosophy imagination
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. William Butler Yeats
wisdom art fate
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
wisdom butterfly optimism
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey....
wisdom ignorant youth
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
wisdom oil dancing
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?
wisdom book thinking
Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened. Walter Russell
wisdom jealous secret
You may command Nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. You cannot intelligently obey that which you do not comprehend. Therefore I also say, ask of Nature that you may be one with her and she will whisper her secrets to you to the extent in which you are prepared to listen. Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her.
wisdom men two
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. Walter Savage Landor
wisdom lasting-happiness knowing
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
wisdom truth lying
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! Walter Scott
wisdom children grace
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
wisdom lost ifs
If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost. Yogi Berra
wisdom political politics
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
wisdom block chips
Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself. Winston Churchill
wisdom perception intelligence
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.
wisdom believe history
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
wisdom heart political
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.