Jonathan Swift Quotes about Wisdom

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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

Friendship, Family, Wisdom

Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1168, Delphi Classics

Many a truth is told in jest.

Jonathan Swift

Wisdom, Truth Is, Jest

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

Wisdom, Communication, Opinion

Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.21, Gerald Duckworth & Co

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

Jonathan Swift

Wisdom, Pain, Hunting

A carpenter is known by his chips.

Jonathan Swift

Wise, Wisdom, Identity

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Poems, Polite convesation, etc”, p.344

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Jonathan Swift

Wise, Wisdom, May

Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.444