Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"No, when the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"An idea is salvation by imagination"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"They would need to be already wise in order to love wisdom"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

Stephen Covey

"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

Peter Ustinov

"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"Men of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... Even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"To oppose something is to maintain it"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

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