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However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently (Wise Man Quotes)
Successful... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies (Wise Man Quotes)
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage (Wise Man Quotes)
I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that we were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition; it is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life (Wise Man Quotes)
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged (Wise Man Quotes)
Ask a wise man to dinner and he’ll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you’ll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people’s entertainment (Wise Man Quotes)
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men (Wise Man Quotes)
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not (Wise Man Quotes)
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly (Wise Man Quotes)
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial (Wise Man Quotes)
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness (Wise Man Quotes)
The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it (Wise Man Quotes)
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe (Wise Man Quotes)
What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste (Wise Man Quotes)
The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks (Wise Man Quotes)
Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity (Wise Man Quotes)
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her (Wise Man Quotes)
The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact (Wise Man Quotes)
To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do (Wise Man Quotes)
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty (Wise Man Quotes)
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There’s no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers (Wise Man Quotes)
A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has (Wise Man Quotes)
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own (Wise Man Quotes)
Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience (Wise Man Quotes)