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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"Words, without power, is mere philosophy"
Muhammad Iqbal, Poet
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor"
Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher
"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"Self-preservation is the first law of nature"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace"
Helen Keller, Author
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius"
Josh Billings, Comedian
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars"
Og Mandino, Author
"It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion"
Anatole France, Novelist
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"By the time we've made it, we've had it"
Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
"And all may do what has by man been done"
Edward Young, Poet
"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs"
Dante Alighieri, Poet
"Call no man happy till he is dead"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"No man is hurt but by himself"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"The mob is the mother of tyrants"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"Blushing is the color of virtue"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"No blessing lasts forever"
Plautus, Playwright
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor"
Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic"
Thomas Szasz, Psychologist
"The possession of anything begins in the mind"
Bruce Lee, Actor
"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome"
Epicurus, Philosopher
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?"
Babe Ruth, Athlete
"You cannot travel within and stand still without"
James Lane Allen, Author
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