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
- We are free to yield to truth.
- Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
- Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
- Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.
- He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
- A picture is a poem without words.
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
- It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Best Quotes
- I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
- Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
- The past doesn't decide who we are. The present does.
- It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
- Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
- Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.