“How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!”
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“There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.”
“He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.”
“A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”
“Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.”
“[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.”
“Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson: With the Prefaces, Notes, Etc. of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson and Select Notes from Many Other Critics ; Also, the Introduction of the Last Editor Mr. Capell; and a Table Shewing His Various Readings ...
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
Source: The shadow that scares me
“If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?”
“Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.”
Source: Talks by Krishnsmurti in India, 1965: Madras, Bombay, New Delhi [and] Varanasi: authentic report
“It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.”
“The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.”
“We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together.”
“I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.”
“All that we need to know all the wisdom of the cosmos we will find in our own heart”
“Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.”
“Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)