A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
To please the many is to displease the wise.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
Though a man has all other perfections, and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
