Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.~ Quintus Ennius He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.~ Epictetus We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.~ Epictetus In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.~ Desiderius Erasmus War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it.~ Desiderius Erasmus The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.~ Bergan Evans Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.~ Martin H. Fischer To do for the world more than the world does for you -- that is success.~ Henry Ford Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.~ Jerome D. Frank We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~ Viktor Frankl Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.~ Benjamin Franklin Moderation in all things -- including moderation.~ Benjamin Franklin There was never a good war, or a bad peace.~ Benjamin Franklin A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin Franklin Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.~ Benjamin Franklin Constitutions are made of paper; Bayonets are made of steel.~ French Aphorism Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.~ Sigmund Freud Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print