Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

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When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

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Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

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If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

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True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

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