Quotes 321 till 340 of 483.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
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The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
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The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
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The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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