Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it"

Thomas Mann, Writer

Thomas Mann

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"I am a part of all that I have met"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul"

Lord Acton, Historian

Lord Acton

"I know the difference between black magic and white magic"

Tina Turner, Musician

Tina Turner

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

Sun Tzu

"It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes, and the echo of ourselves in their words"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, in every atom slumbers the might of the self"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

Muhammad Iqbal

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"Look before you leap, for as you sow, ye are like to reap"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed"

Horace, Poet

"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"We die in proportion to the words we fling around us"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"Every man makes a god of his own desire"

Virgil, Writer

"A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

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