Wisdom Quotes — page 9

When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.

Second thoughts are oftentimes the very worst of all thoughts.

Whoever estimates the sensible sameness by the verbal identity of their common name will commit the error of mistaking for physical what is only intellectual. ...the sensible signification of language is strictly limited by the sensible …

It has been said that "Nothing worth the proving can be proved, nor yet disproved."

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.

live and move and have our being

Gnash The thirteen teeth Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh.

I considered, that history is the inexhaustible mine, out of which political knowledge is to be brought up.

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

...where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Personal religion has a supreme value for its own sake, not merely as a feeder of social morality, but as the highest unfolding of life itself, as the blossoming of our spiritual nature. Spiritual regeneration is the most important fact in …

If Man makes Conscience, then being good Is only being worldly wise, And universal brotherhood A comfortable compromise.

Those who, by the essence of their belief, are committed to Direct Action only are — just who? Why, the non-resistants; precisely those who do not believe in violence at all!

Praise is the shipwreck of historians.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

Some people tell you you should not drink claret after strawberries. They are wrong, if the claret be good. The milky taste of good claret coheses admirably with strawberries — somewhat like cream.

The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the …

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

it is differently estimated by different persons

As human sacrifices were a natural effect of that superstitious cruelty which first produced the slaughter of animals, so is it equally natural that those accustomed to eat the brute, should not long abstain from the man: more especially …

Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!

I loved you ere I knew you: know you now, And, having known you, love you better still.

Set a beggar on horseback, and they say he will never light.