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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"The more we have, the less we own"
Meister Eckhart, Philosopher
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"
Plautus, Playwright
"Their silence is praise enough"
Terence, Playwright
"I am human, and let nothing human be alien to me"
Terence, Playwright
"Appearances are often deceiving"
Aesop, Author
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Perfection? Being the most human you can be"
Giovanni Morassutti, Actor
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures"
Earl Warren, Judge
"It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail"
Peter Marshall, Clergyman
"Jesters do often prove prophets"
Joseph Addison, Writer
"Custom is the great guide to human life"
David Hume, Philosopher
"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt"
Tacitus, Historian
"I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened"
Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas"
G. H. Hardy, Mathematician
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see"
Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist
"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects"
Herodotus, Historian
"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich"
Democritus, Philosopher
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers"
James Thurber, Comedian
"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom"
Ben Jonson, Poet
"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave"
Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet
"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung"
William Morris, Designer
"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home"
Novalis, Poet
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
"The first question I ask myself, when something doesn't seem to be beautiful, is: why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason"
John Cage, Composer
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk"
Doug Larson, Cartoonist
"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience"
William Golding, Novelist
"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure"
Petrarch, Poet
"Our true passions are selfish"
Stendhal, Writer
"Two great talkers will not travel far together"
George Borrow, Author
"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe"
Phaedrus, Poet
"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer
"An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it"
James Lovelock, Scientist
"By associating with wise people, you will become wise yourself"
Menander, Poet
"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in"
Edgar Watson Howe, Editor
"For economist, the real world is often a special case"
Edgar R. Fiedler, Economist
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid"
Thomas Kempis, Writer
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