Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"No one can give you better advice than yourself"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"A good horse should be seldom spurred"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"What is once well done is done forever"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

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