A Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Niccolo Machiavelli
Italian - Writer
May 3, 1469 - June 21, 1527

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Jerry Garcia

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.

Starhawk

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Ralph Nader

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

Niccolo Machiavelli

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Aristotle

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Walter Savage Landor

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Miyamoto Musashi

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you are also choosing what somebody else does not want, and all the consequences that follow. You can tell yourself, That's not my problem, but those words do not wash the trouble away. Maybe it is no longer a problem in your life. But it is always a problem in your heart.

Amy Tan

The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.