Must Quotes

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.