Horace Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

  Horace

  Education, Wisdom, Book

• Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

  Horace

  Life, Success, Wise

  "Satires", II. 7. 83 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 878-882), 1922.

• A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

  Horace

  Wise, Wisdom, Cages

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

• Wisdom at times is found in folly.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Found, Folly

• Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Folly

  "The Odes of Horace".

• Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Men, World

• Force without reason falls of its own weight.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

• Anger is a short madness.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Anger, Madness

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 2, l. 62

• Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

  Horace

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Epistles bk. 1, no. 18, l. 71

• This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

  Horace

  Wisdom, Prayer, Spring

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