Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"The entire fruit is already present in the seed"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes

"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"Speech is the mirror of action"

Solon, Statesman

Solon

"Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky"

Solon, Statesman

Solon

"Don't judge a book by its thickness either"

Craig Bruce, Writer

Craig Bruce

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"If you live among wolves, you have to act like a wolf"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

Nikita Khrushchev

"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure"

Russell Baker, Journalist

Russell Baker

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"

Marilyn French, Author

Marilyn French

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

Sean O'Casey

"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"In Italian, there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame"

Donatella Versace, Designer

Donatella Versace

"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

Karl Popper

"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

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

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

Leonard Nimoy

"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Power is paradoxical"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"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

"Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt"

Navjot Singh Sidhu, Entertainer

"The only certainty is that nothing is certain"

Pliny the Elder, Author

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

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

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

Iris Murdoch, Author

Iris Murdoch

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

Edgar R. Fiedler, Economist

Edgar R. Fiedler

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

David Seabury, Psychologist

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