H. L. Mencken Quotes About Wisdom

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  • Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  • No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

    H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик
  • You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

  • It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.80, Knopf
  • The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

    H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.
  • To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  • Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.470, Vintage
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