“Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”
More from William Blake on Wisdom
“I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”
“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.”
“Exuberance is beauty.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.”
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Little by little does the trick.”
Confucius
19 quotes“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
George Washington
14 quotes“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and...”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”