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Wisdom Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
- The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities…
- You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
- A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet…
- The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of…
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by…
- Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- The older I grew the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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