Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

"The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it"

Phaedrus, Poet

"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument about it and about, but evermore came out by the same door as in I went"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass"

Edgar R. Fiedler, Economist

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose"

John Gay, Poet

"The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are"

Paul Tournier, Author

"What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

"A thief believes everybody steals"

Edward W. Howe, Writer

"No man will work for your interests unless they are his"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Better late than never"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Gifts make slaves"

Levi Strauss, Businessman

"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere"

Anish Kapoor, Artist

"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"Learn what you are and be such"

Pindar, Poet

"Inaction may be the biggest form of action"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise"

Thomas Gray, Poet

"Culture is not made up, but something that evolves, which is human"

Edward T. Hall, Scientist

"Look to the past and remember, no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall"

Al Stewart, Musician

"The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism"

Daniel Bell, Sociologist

"Every country has the government it deserves"

Joseph de Maistre, Diplomat

"Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel, the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond"

Hypatia, Philosopher

"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel"

Kathleen Casey, Politician

"What we share with another ceases to be our own"

Edgar Quinet, Historian

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"

Philo, Philosopher

"A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind"

Dawn Powell, Writer

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts"

James P. Hogan, Author

"Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up"

Roger B. Chaffee, Astronaut

"The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul"

Mercy Otis Warren, Playwright

"To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Advice is one of those things: it is far more blessed to give than to receive"

Carolyn Wells, Author

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