"The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear."
― Samuel Smiles
Topic(s):
Society
More From Samuel Smiles
- "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 of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only."
- "Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
- "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved."
More In Society
- "A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."― Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people – segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically."― Jeb Bush
- "But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I’m told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude."― Harold Bloom