Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.~ Chinese Proverb Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.~ Sir Winston Churchill The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.~ Sir Winston Churchill Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero By doubting we all come at truth.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to denigration without the usual interval of civilization.~ Georges Clemenceau It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good.~ Hartley Coleridge He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.~ Charles Caleb Colton Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.~ Confucius The superior man understands what is right. The inferior man understands what is popular.~ Confucius If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.~ Confucius If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.~ Confucius By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.~ Confucius No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.~ Calvin Coolidge I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.~ Calvin Coolidge Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.~ Calvin Coolidge I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.~ Bill Cosby History is a vast early warning system.~ Norman Cousins Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print