—Oliver Goldsmith
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wisdom. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Post #1752
If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.
—Talmud
Friday, October 17, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Post #1414
He who acquires knowledge, without imparting it to others, is like a myrtle in the desert, where there is no one to enjoy it.
—The Talmud
Monday, September 02, 2013
Post #1331
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Friday, July 05, 2013
Post #1290
The poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Get a Random Quote Here
—Ecclesiastes 9:16
Get a Random Quote Here
Monday, June 24, 2013
Post #1282
Wisdom alone is true ambitions's aim,
Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labour, for mankind employed,
And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame,
Obtained with labour, for mankind employed,
And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
—William Whitehead
Friday, May 31, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Post #1234
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
—Sir Winston Churchill
—Sir Winston Churchill
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Post #1195
The wise know their weakness too well to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
—Thomas Jefferson
—Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Friday, August 24, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Post #1034
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
—Niccolo Machiavelli
—Niccolo Machiavelli
Monday, July 23, 2012
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Monday, July 02, 2012
Post #993
If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.
—Cyril Connolly
—Cyril Connolly
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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