Wisdom Quotes — page 23

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.

There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.

You had better — all you people at the South — prepare yourselves for a settlement of this question, that must come up for settlement sooner than you are prepared for it. The sooner you are prepared the better. You may dispose of me very …

Here, Cyprian, is my jeweled looking-glass, My final gift to bind my final vow: I cannot see myself as I once was; I would not see myself as I am now.

Giving full rein to one‘s cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.

That fat Rodzianko has again sent me some nonsense to which I will not even reply.

But […] [t]he introduction of these notions into Ethics is liable to bring with it a fundamental confusion between “what is” and “what ought to be”, destructive of all clearness in ethical reasoning

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

enormities, inconveniences, and extravagances of our modern upholsterers

It is a great satisfaction for me to find, that this matter will undergo investigation elsewhere, before it is finally decided.

Balfourism acts like a blister on Ireland and the Irish, and has the bad and good effects which such treatment generally produces. A too protracted application of the blister might do much harm.

With the smile that was childlike and bland.

Too hard for any frog's digestion, To have his froghood call'd in question!

A servant's too often a negligent elf; If it's business of consequence, !

.was one of the most brilliant students of the Ateneo Municipal as far as humanities and natural and mathematical sciences are concerned

The Lawrell to his just request did seeme to condescende, By bowing of hir newe made boughs and tender braunches downe, And wagging of hir seemely toppe, as if it were hir crowne.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Nothing but what has visible substance, is capable of actual possession.

An amendment ought not to be allowed if it will occasion injustice; but if it can do no injustice, and will only save expense, it ought to be made.

Jesus, my life is Thine, And ever more shall be Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.

I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.

Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom.

Youth is always right. Those who follow the counsels of youth are wise.