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Wise Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a…
- The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was…
- The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
- Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;…
- Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
- Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
- The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
- God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
- Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by…
- The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the…
- Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
- Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
- Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with…
- He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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- The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
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- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle