Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [421-440] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.~ Mencius No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.~ H. L. Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.~ H. L. Mencken Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.~ H. L. Mencken I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival.~ Thomas Merton I did not come here to guide lambs. I came here to awaken lions.~ Javier Milei The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart Mill Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.~ John Stuart Mill Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry Miller You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.~ Zell Miller When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.~ The Mishnah Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard Mitchell Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.~ James Monroe How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.~ James Monroe One cannot shut ones eyes to things not seen with eyes.~ Charles Langbridge Morgan A man always has two reasons for what he does -- a good one, and the real one.~ J. P. Morgan The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.~ John Viscount Morley Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print