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Wisdom Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .
- As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my mind there is…
- Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to…
- Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title…
- It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is…
- Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
- In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
- The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
- Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes;…
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