Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
— Pablo Picasso
You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people
— Will Rogers
It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?
— Will Rogers
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.
— Will Rogers
The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
— William Faulkner
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
— William Gladstone
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
— William Hazlitt
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
— William Hazlitt
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I shall not be able to find my way across the room, nor know how to conduct myself in any circumstances, nor what to feel in any relation of life.
— William Hazlitt
Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas
— William James
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits
— William James