Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"One whose knowledge is confined to books, and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details or the paraphernalia and style"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought"

Matsuo Basho, Poet

"Let each man exercise the art he knows"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them"

Robert De Niro, Actor

Robert De Niro

"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"Quebec does not have opinions but only sentiments"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

Wilfrid Laurier

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The wise learn many things from their enemies"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"The good ideas will survive"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

Quentin Tarantino

"Live and die in Aristotle's works"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"One must not hope to be more than one can be"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"Conviction is the conscience of the mind"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals"

Madame de Stael, Writer

Madame de Stael

"Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak"

Madame de Stael, Writer

Madame de Stael

"Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then"

John Burroughs, Author

"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing, they become fanatics about conservatism"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

Paul Tsongas

"What people want, above all, is order"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

Konrad Lorenz

"Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way"

Matthew Prior, Poet

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