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Source: Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill
“The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck
“Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches
Source: The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times
“Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Contarini Fleming and The rise of Iskander
Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues
“The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.”
Source: The cart and the horse
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
Source: The Modern Temper
Source: Songs and Satires
“Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.”
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
Source: The Odyssey of Homer
Source: Medea
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
Source: De Officiis: (English Edition)
“For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.”
“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.”
Source: Forty Years on Main Street
“It is wiser to find out than to suppose.”
Source: Everyone's Mark Twain
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”