Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"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

Sophocles

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"It is easier to stay out than get out"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

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

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"History should be written as philosophy"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"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

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"I love those who yearn for the impossible"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

Samuel Beckett

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

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