Quotesdtb.com
Home
Authors
Quotes of the day
Top quotes
Topics
There can only be one wisdom. For if it were possible that there be several wisdoms, then these would have to be from one. Namely, unity is prior to all plurality.
Nicholas of Cusa
Related topics
plurality
possible
prior
several
unity
wisdom
Related quotes
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope