Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Call no man happy till he is dead"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"Wonder is involuntary praise"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"The more we have, the less we own"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart

"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

Arnold J. Toynbee

"Their silence is praise enough"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"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

Earl Warren

"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Perfection? Being the most human you can be"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

Giovanni Morassutti

"Custom is the great guide to human life"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"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

Peter Marshall

"Jesters do often prove prophets"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"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

Herodotus

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich"

Democritus, Philosopher

Democritus

"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened"

Johann Heinrich Lambert, Mathematician

Johann Heinrich Lambert

"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

G. H. Hardy

"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

Malcolm Muggeridge

"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers"

James Thurber, Comedian

James Thurber

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

Baltasar Gracian

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"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

Ben Jonson

"Suspicion is a heavy armor, and with its weight it impedes more than it protects"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

Karl Popper

"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

John Cage

"Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung"

William Morris, Designer

William Morris

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

Quentin Crisp

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

Doug Larson

"An alliance with a powerful person is never safe"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

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