Wisdom Quotes - Page 87

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

[M]ost people offend God by passing judgment on the things others do, especially important people, not knowing the reasons why they are doing what they do; for when one does not know the primary cause of some matter, what conclusions can he draw from it?

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty