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Wisdom Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge…
- It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of…
- The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for…
- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point…
- The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the…
- I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
- I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and…
- Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong,…
- We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the…
- I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of…
- I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- No one is more deeply than myself aware that without Hisfavor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would…
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold