Best Samuel Butler Wisdom
- Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently. Affairs
- Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child Boy
- We think as we do, mainly because other people think so Mainly
- When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a… Bad
- The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than… Courage
- Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind All
- One should judge by appearance only: what is hidden should remain so Appearance
- If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first… Any
- Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods Gods
- Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way… Amount
- Figures never lie, but liars often figure Figure
- Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. Abate
- God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians Alter
- Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain Follows
- For every why he had a wherefore Questioning
- The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome. Doctors
- The man who takes time to explain his mistakes has little time left for anything else Anything Else
- Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure Failure
- For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the… Asceticism
- An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in… All
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler Art
- All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. All
- Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. Anxious
- It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. Difficult
- One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground Ancestry
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