top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Wisdom quotes
"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
Explore more quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
bottom of page