Thomas Dekker Quotes

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.

There are no wise few.

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.