Isaac D'Israeli Quotes

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

The jester is brother to the sage.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.