Great Throughts Treasury

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Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Man | Opinion | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others.

Man | Will | Wisdom |

Hayim Nahim Bialik, also Chaim or Haim

As long as the soul animates man, and longs for light and thirsts for beauty, man needs the fountain of poetry.

Beauty | Light | Man | Poetry | Soul | Wisdom |

Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Inspiration always comes when a man wills it, but it does not always depart when he wishes.

Inspiration | Man | Wills | Wisdom | Wishes |

Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana

The ambitious man grasps at opinion as necessary to his designs; the vain man sure for it as a testimony to his merit; the honest man demands it as his due; and most men consider it as necessary to their existence.

Existence | Man | Men | Merit | Opinion | Wisdom |

George Dana Boardman "The Younger"

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

Man | Nature | Wisdom | Wise | Wonder |

Hugh Blair

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

Circumstances | Liberty | Man | Rank | Wisdom |

Leo Baeck

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it a meaning.

Action | Faith | Man | Meaning | Wisdom | World |

J. Beaumont

Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression.

Age | Childhood | Courage | Extreme | Ignorance | Man | Men | Nothing | Old age | Oppression | Will | Wisdom | Old |

Bernard Iddings Bell, formerly Bruce Chilton, fully Canon Bernard Iddings Bell

Good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world as one which enables him to sustain failure.

Education | Failure | Good | Man | Wisdom | World |

Bacchylides NULL

No man on earth is lucky in all things.

Earth | Man | Wisdom |

Nathan Bailey

A wise man never wants a weapon.

Man | Wants | Wisdom | Wise |

Julius Bate

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

Aims | Life | Life | Man | Mission | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom | Wishes | World |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.

Better | Desire | Gold | Man | Nothing | Understanding | Wisdom |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffer want.

Man | Wisdom |

Babylonian Talmud

Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business, and a third let him keep in reserve.

Business | Land | Man | Money | Reserve | Wisdom |

Charles F. Banning

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube, it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold - billions of dollars' worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity.

Character | Conscience | Eternity | Friend | Gold | Man | Mind | Peace | Sense | Size | Wisdom | World | Worth |

William Blake

To be in a Passion you Good man do, But no Good if a Passion is in you.

Good | Man | Passion | Wisdom |