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- We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty…
- I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the…
- Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
- The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is…
- Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in…
- Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to…
- At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and…
- Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
- The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the…
- [The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
- A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
- Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
- The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
- Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
- As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every…
- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with…
- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
- Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps…
- I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from…
- Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
- Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant
- The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson