Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund Burke

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Eckhart Tolle

Where ever you are, be there totally.

Bob Woodward

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Edith Wharton

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

David Icke

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

David Hume

Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by restraining the natural liberty of men, make private interest submit to the interest of the public.

August Strindberg

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Arnold Palmer

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Edmund Waller

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

Edgar Lee Masters

The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

Edgar Lee Masters

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Edgar Guest

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Benjamin Franklin

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Benjamin Franklin

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Benjamin Franklin

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Benjamin Franklin

What you would seem to be, be really.

Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Barbara Tuchman

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Avicenna

Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

Anton Chekhov

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

Anton Chekhov

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Anton Chekhov

I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.