Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness"

Margaret Millar, Writer

Bert Lance, Politician

"By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique, one does not arrive at precision"

Bruno Walter, Composer

"When the devil grows old, he turns hermit"

Ludovico Ariosto, Poet

"Who seeks shall find"

Sophocles, Author

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness"

Sophocles, Author

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink"

Sophocles, Author

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory, it too good"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels"

Voltaire, Writer

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life"

Voltaire, Writer

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy"

Voltaire, Writer

"History should be written as philosophy"

Voltaire, Writer

"It is easier to stay out than get out"

Mark Twain, Author

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain, Author

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"

Mark Twain, Author

"Silence is a source of great strength"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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