Wisdom Quotes — page 20

Though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility; there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

I am obliged to watch as he has no counsel

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Uncle, whose inventive brains kept evolving aeroplanes, fell from an enormous height upon my garden lawn last night. Flying is a fatal sport, uncle wrecked the tennis court.

"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

Paper currency, guarded by proper regulations and restrictions, is the life of commerce.

The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

It is wisdom about God for those who believe that he is all things and in all, and wisdom about nature for the man who accepts the statement found in the Christian Bible that God cannot be measured or discovered, and that darkness is …

The beauté faye upon her face Non erthly thing it may desface.

Every Court is the guardian of its own records, and master of its own practice.

One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of …

Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment (...) This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the …

. . . and then we wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on for human sake.

… one damn thing after another … one damn thing over and over.

There has been a great advance as regards the education of women. Many of our grandmothers did not know how to write their own names, it being then regarded as unnecessary for woman to learn to write. Now she has so far come up to the …

I never saw such a place for merched anllad [wanton women] as Northampton.

[I]f we suppose, that to-morrow I will be changed to you, and you into I, there is no change at all, because then the you is the I, and the I the you; and the same applies if the I changes into a table, because then the table itself …

the art of making discoveries should be extended by considering noteworthy examples of it.

The revolutions in Russia and Central Europe, the inevitable results of the great genocide, also brought so-called suffrage women, which had long been the ideal of the bourgeois and social-democratic women’s movements.

Sir Walter, being strangely supprized and putt out of his countenance at so great a Table, gives his son a damned blow over the face; his son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face of the Gentleman that …

Across the threshold led, And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, His house she enters, there to be a light, Shining within, when all without is night; A guardian angel o’er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares …

Ruffian or devil, black as hell or bright as angels, thenceforth he was nothing to me.

The principles which should govern the commercial intercourse of nations, do not differ from those which regulate the dealings of private individuals.

Scotus... declares that a man’s knowledge is measured by the amount of his mental activity...