It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Learning Copy Share Image
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. — Charles Caleb Colton Games Copy Share Image
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Consistency Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. — Charles Caleb Colton Light Copy Share Image
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton Bears Copy Share Image
A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Community Copy Share Image
The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you. — Charles Caleb Colton Chiefs Copy Share Image
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the… — Charles Caleb Colton Books Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know… — Charles Caleb Colton Contemporaries Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Abhorrence Copy Share Image
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Being wise Copy Share Image
The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely.… — Charles Caleb Colton Anger Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs. — Charles Caleb Colton Cat Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. — Charles Caleb Colton Companion Copy Share Image
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
