Wisdom Quotes — page 2

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

When national debts have once been accumulated to a certain degree, there is scarce, I believe, a single instance of their having been fairly and completely paid. The liberation of the public revenue, if it has ever been brought about at …

She pays him in his own coin.

But strive still to be a man before your mother.

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

When he talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.

But when I crept with leaves to hide Those parts, which maids keep unespy'd, Such fleeting pleasures there I took, That with the fancy I awoke; And found, ah me! this flesh of mine More like a stock than like a vine.

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

The commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

My rising is thy fall

The Indians, whom we call barbarous, observe much more decency and civility in their discourses and conversation

The unsociable species, on the contrary, are doomed to decay.

For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

It was a rude gross error, that of counting the Great Man a god. Yet let us say that it is at all times difficult to know what he is, or how to account of him and receive him!

The ever importunate murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!"

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

their eminent chief alternated between a menace and a sigh.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have heard the news.

I repeat: the experience of the notorious dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia has clearly shown even to those who are incapable of thinking or have had no occasion to give thought to the matter that absolute centralisation and …

He that complies against his will. Is of his own opinion still.