Oliver Goldsmith Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Causes, Effects

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.426

• Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Doubt, Mirth

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.27

• Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Truth, Lips

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 179

• The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Animal, Circles

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.323

• Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Defense, Trouble

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