Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, People Quotes

...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 would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

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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 Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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

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He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

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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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The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

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If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

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Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

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