Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [321-340] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.~ Thomas Jefferson Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.~ Jesus of Nazareth And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.~ Jesus of Nazareth Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.~ Jesus of Nazareth In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man’s conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Courage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven't courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson It does not require many words to speak the truth.~ Chief Joseph Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.~ Juvenal Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)~ Juvenal I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.~ Franz Kafka Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.~ Immanuel Kant Any philosophy worth considering must attempt to account for the existence of evil in the world.~ Elie Kedourie I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.~ Helen Keller There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.~ Helen Keller We have met the enemy and he is us.~ Walt Kelly ...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.~ John F. Kennedy Take what you can use and let the rest go by.~ Ken Kesey Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print