A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
We recognize that there are no trivial occurences in life
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.