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Wise Quotes - Page 14

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

"Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.