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
- Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
- Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
- Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
- Life is largely a matter of expectation.
- A picture is a poem without words.
- Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
- Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.
- Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Best Quotes
- Negative politics have always been around.
- There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
- Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
- I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
- Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.
- It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
- I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
- I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.
- Your head is everybodies' head :)