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Wisdom Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is…
- ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in…
- The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
- This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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