William Butler Yeats Quotes, Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

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Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

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We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

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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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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

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There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

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Do not expect justice where might is right.

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

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The best people are like water, which benefits all things and does not compete with them. It stays in lowly places that others reject. This is why it is so similar to the Way.

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With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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