Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Quote by Horace
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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Horace Quotes
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
- Anger is a short madness.
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
- We are free to yield to truth.
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
- A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
- Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
- Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
Best Quotes
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
- Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
- I hate art auctions.
- I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
- Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
- Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Woman was God's second mistake.
- Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.