Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"The fool wanders, a wise man travels"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Scalded cats fear even cold water"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"A good garden may have some weeds"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The universe is wider than our views of it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"The worst men often give the best advice"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Opportunity makes a thief"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"The best prophet of the future is the past"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"All that spirits desire, spirits attain"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks"

Douglas Adams, Writer

Douglas Adams

"Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"Patience is the companion of wisdom"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"No man was ever great by imitation"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Cleverness is not wisdom"

Euripides, Poet

Euripides

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... One can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

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