Wisdom and understanding can only become the posse... -Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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Samuel Smiles Quotes to Explore

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles....
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us....
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever....
Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action....
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others....
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!...
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and indu...
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the...
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline...
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never m...

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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but ...
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning,...
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces...
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated f...
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb....
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorg...
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom....
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me....
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom....
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show inst...