Intelligent Quotes

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”

“Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.”

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”

“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.”

“He who thinks little, errs much.”

“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”

“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”

“A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.”

“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”

“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”

“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

“Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.”

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”