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Peter Abelard, quotes about Wisdom:
The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.more Peter Abelard quotes
Lord Acton, quotes about Wisdom:
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.more Lord Acton quotes
Lord Acton, quotes about Wisdom:
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.more Lord Acton quotes
Franklin P. Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.more Franklin P. Adams quotes
Henry Brooks Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.more Henry Brooks Adams quotes
John Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.more John Adams quotes
John Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil. more John Adams quotes
John Quincy Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.more John Quincy Adams quotes
Samuel Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.more Samuel Adams quotes
Samuel Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.more Samuel Adams quotes
Samuel Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.more Samuel Adams quotes
Samuel Adams, quotes about Wisdom:
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.more Samuel Adams quotes
Aeschylus, quotes about Wisdom:
Time as he grows old teaches all things.more Aeschylus quotes
Aeschylus, quotes about Wisdom:
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.more Aeschylus quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Vices are their own punishment.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
The gods help them that help themselves.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Familiarity breeds contempt.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
Appearances often are deceiving.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.more Aesop quotes
Aesop, quotes about Wisdom:
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.more Aesop quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Wisdom:
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Wisdom:
In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Wisdom:
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Wisdom:
Moderation in all things.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Wisdom:
Fortune helps the brave.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
Herbert Sebastien Agar, quotes about Wisdom:
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.more Herbert Sebastien Agar quotes
Mohammed Ali, quotes about Wisdom:
The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.more Mohammed Ali quotes
Woody Allen, quotes about Wisdom:
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.more Woody Allen quotes
Jessica Anderson, quotes about Wisdom:
I'm not apologising, I'm saying I'm sorry, which is quite different.more Jessica Anderson quotes
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, quotes about Wisdom:
Change your thoughts and you change your world.more Marcus Aurelius Antoninus quotes
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, quotes about Wisdom:
The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.more Marcus Aurelius Antoninus quotes
Saint Thomas Aquinas, quotes about Wisdom:
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.more Saint Thomas Aquinas quotes
Saint Thomas Aquinas, quotes about Wisdom:
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.more Saint Thomas Aquinas quotes
Yassir Arafat, quotes about Wisdom:
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.more Yassir Arafat quotes
Aristophanes, quotes about Wisdom:
The wise learn many things from their enemies.more Aristophanes quotes
Aristotle, quotes about Wisdom:
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.more Aristotle quotes
Aristotle, quotes about Wisdom:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.more Aristotle quotes
Aristotle, quotes about Wisdom:
It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.more Aristotle quotes
Aristotle, quotes about Wisdom:
Education is the best provision for old age.