Wisdom Quotes — page 3

Be not solitary, be not idle.

Sky—what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, Ray on ray split the shroud: Splendid, a star!

I am making no predictions and the Prime Minister is wise in taking that line, but I am perfectly certain that nothing will enable the German Empire for a generation or two to get anywhere near the same position of dominant force and …

Lost Reputation hard is to be found.

A star looks down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand each in our degree: What do you mean to do,— Mean to do?"

Invention is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Rouse the lion from his lair.

The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients, which I think will not bear examination, and they ought to be …

The people themselves must be the ultimate makers of their own Constitution, and where their agents differ in their interpretations of the Constitution the people themselves should be given the chance, after full and deliberate judgment, …

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

That unwise body, the United Irishmen, have had the folly to represent those Evils as owing to this Country, when in truth its chief guilt is in its total neglect, its utter oblivion, its shameful indifference and its entire ignorance, of …

When alterations in technical terms become necessary, it is desirable that the new term should contain in its form some memorial of the old one.

Where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones?

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

The ambassador [of Russia] and the grandees who accompanied him were so gorgeous that all London crowded to stare at them, and so filthy that nobody dared to touch them. They came to the court balls dropping pearls and vermin.

If my view be correct, Erasmus Darwin planted the seed of suggestion in questioning whether adaptation meant no more to man than illustration of creative ingenuity; the one grandson, Charles Darwin, collected the facts which had to be …

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal …

Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought …

Any desired geometrical mean between two sines has for its Logarithm the corresponding arithmetical mean between the Logarithms of the sines.

I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony