Quotes 241 till 260 of 483.
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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
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Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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