Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-180] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Nothing is given so profusely as advice.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld There is in human affairs one order which is best. That order is not always the one which exists; but it is the order which should exist for the greatest good of humanity. God knows, it and will it: man's duty it is to discover and establish it.~ Emile Louis Victor de Laveleye If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.~ Michel De Montaigne I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether things are so.~ Michel De Montaigne The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de Montesquieu In the end, the state of the Union comes down to the character of the people. ... I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, and it was not there. I sought for it in the fertile fields, and boundless prairies, and it was not there. I sought it in her rich mines, and vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power.~ Alexis de Tocqueville Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.~ Alexis de Tocqueville Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.~ Demosthenes We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.~ Max DePree If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.~ Rene Descartes The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.~ John Dewey Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.~ Charles Dickens Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.~ Dionysius, the Elder How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.~ Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.~ Benjamin Disraeli Individuality is freedom lived.~ John Dos Passos The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever.~ Rabbi Wayne Dosick A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.~ William O. Douglas I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print