Wisdom Quotes · Page 50
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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
“The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.”
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
“There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets.”
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true.”
“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes.”
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.”
“Time alone shows a just man; but thou couldst discern a knave even in one day.”
“Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.”
“There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.”
“Knowledge must come through action; thou canst have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.”
“Whosoever knows how to render benefit for benefit must prove a friend above price.”
“Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”
“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”
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