Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind"

John Burroughs, Author

"They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others, however, are more like rivets, never drawn at all"

John Burroughs, Author

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one"

E. B. White, Writer

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right, more than half of the time"

E. B. White, Writer

"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another"

E. B. White, Writer

"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

Wilson Mizner

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

Sydney Smith

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

Wilson Mizner

"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course"

Thom Mayne, Architect

Thom Mayne

"If a dress is well made, it never becomes old-fashioned"

Mainbocher, Designer

Mainbocher

"Luxury is the absence of vulgarity"

Mainbocher, Designer

Mainbocher

"Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out"

Bill Lear, Inventor

Bill Lear

"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"A true initiation never ends"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Normal is in the eye of the beholder"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

Whoopi Goldberg

"One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective"

John Buchan, Politician

John Buchan

"He who awaits much can expect little"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"When the rose and the cross are united, the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"The average is that which no person quite ever is"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values"

William J. Clinton, President

William J. Clinton

"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"It's not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

Branch Rickey

"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity"

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"The cynicism that you have is not your real soul"

Yoko Ono, Artist

Yoko Ono

"The thought is a deed. Of all deeds, she fertilizes the world most"

Emile Zola, Novelist

Emile Zola

"Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"Fame and wealth are fleeting and empty; wisdom and virtue endure forever"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"Forethought is the best ally"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government!"

William Howard Taft, President

"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness"

Thucydides, Historian

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