“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
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“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
Source: Rory O'More. Revised
Source: Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes
Source: Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”
“Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.”
“It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.”
“Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.”
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”
Source: The Confidence-Man
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”
Source: A little book in C major
“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
Source: Minority Report
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”
Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c
“Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.”
“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”
“Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)
“Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.”
Source: The Quotable Osler
“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”
“Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.”
“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
Source: The Power of Positive Thinking