Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

~ Ken Kesey  

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us."

~ Marcel Proust  

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools,
among the wise seem foolish."

~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus  

"To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

~ Marilyn vos Savant  

"Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

~ Chief Joseph  

"To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"The history of the world is none other than
the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  

"By doubting we all come at truth."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."

~ Sophocles  

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.
Nothing does - except wrinkles.
It's true, some wines improve with age.
But only if the grapes were good in the first place."

~ Abigail Van Buren  

"The older I grow
the more I distrust
the familiar doctrine
that age brings wisdom."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at
how much the old man had learned in seven years."

~ Mark Twain