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
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
- Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
- 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.
- Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
- The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
- We are free to yield to truth.
Best Quotes
- The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
- If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
- Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
- A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
- In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
- You have to have courage to be obedient to God.
- What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.
- Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.
- There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.