Edward Joseph Young Quotes

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

Edward Joseph Young

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• With age comes common sense and wisdom.

  

  Nas
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Common Sense

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Follow

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wisdom

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• You may think, passer-by, that FateIs a pit-fall outside of yourself,Around which you may walk by the use of foresightAnd wisdom.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • May
  • Fall
  • Wisdom

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• Critics, you have been so kind, I would not have you think me blind To all the wisdom that you preach; Yet before I strictlier run In straiter lines of chiselled speech, Give me one more hour, just one Hour to hunt the fairy gleam That flutters through this childish dream.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Dream
  • Wisdom

• Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

  

  James Hillman
  • Wisdom

• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Health
  • Wisdom

• I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Peace

• In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• Applied properly, it logic can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

  

  Christopher Paolini
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Wisdom

• An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• You should be a pleasing personality. Instead of thinking about how you should be pleased, I don't like this, I don't do like that, instead of, what have I done to please others?

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Most of the times to be honest with you, I get sexually harassed certainly more than I do to females, because... they are comfortable with me, and because they know I can't take it to a dangerous place.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Honest
  • Females
  • Dangerous Place

• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Wisdom
  • Seed
  • Active Life