Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

• Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wisdom, Found, Mankind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.626, JHU Press

• The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 1, l. 625

• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.244

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