#wise

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#friendship #i #i wish #mankind #may

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#between #cannot #difference #falsehood #gold

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#learn #likewise #may #men #necessary

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#man #may #speak #speaks #talk

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

#beings #experience #fight #figures #get

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ↗

— Helen Keller

#enemy #never #our #self-pity #wise

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. ↗

— Helen Keller

#feels #happiness #his #how #indisputable

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own. ↗

— Stan Kenton

#bandstand #blatant #driven #ecstasy #faces