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Wisdom Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book…
- Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
- Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom…
- People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,…
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- 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