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Wisdom Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
- Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it…
- A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
- Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:…
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
- All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
- He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
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- 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