Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [281-300] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.~ Horace Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.~ Elbert Hubbard It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.~ David Hume An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.~ Aldous Huxley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~ Aldous Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.~ Hypatia of Alexandria The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can ever help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.~ Henrik Ibsen The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.~ Henrik Ibsen To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.~ Tokugawa Ieyasu When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.~ Indian Saying A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.~ William Ralph Inge It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.~ William Ralph Inge Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.~ William Ralph Inge The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance as the title page and Preface to a most learned volume. So they are easily imposed upon by forms, strange garments, and solemn ceremonies. And when the teaching of parents, the customs of neighbors, and the general tongue approve and justify a belief or creed, no matter how absurd, it is hard even for the strongest to hold the citadel of his soul. In each country, in defence of each religion, the same arguments would be urged.~ Robert G. Ingersoll There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. Ingersoll — My creed — Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print