Quotes
Quotes about Wit
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise.
Wit is educated insolence.
Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
