Posted by: Davide Castellani
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is a lot nicer to know something of everything, that everything on a single matter.
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It is a lot nicer to know something of everything, that everything on a single matter.
Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
Many a man knocks about on the wall with his hammer, and believes that he hits the right nail on the head every time.
Nothing demonstrates more the greatness and the power of the human intellect, or the stature and nobility of man, than man's ability to know and entirely comprehend and strongly feel his smallness.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Even the most miserable of men is capable of finding out the weaknesses of the the worthiest, even the stupidest is capable of finding out the mistakes of the wisest.
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
In old age one repents for sins one has not committed.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Admit your mistakes before someone exagerates them.