Character Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Civilization Liberty Morality Religion Valuable Wisdom
The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God. — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes to those who diligently seek it. It is a wealth of knowledge and a spring of power. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image