Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.~ Harold J. Laski If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.~ Latin Proverb Suum cuique [To each his own, to each according to his merits.]~ Latin Proverb There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.~ Andrew B. Law [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.~ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn.~ C. S. Lewis [Prosperity] knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.~ C. S. Lewis A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.~ C. S. Lewis To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death --- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.~ C. S. Lewis It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.~ C. S. Lewis Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.~ C. S. Lewis The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.~ Joseph Lewis One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...~ Abraham Lincoln With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.~ Abraham Lincoln If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.~ Abraham Lincoln We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.~ Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.~ Abraham Lincoln Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.~ Abraham Lincoln Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print