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"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean"
Alan Watts, Philosopher
"Turn your wounds into wisdom"
Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer
"He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk"
Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher
"We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit"
Sam Ewing, Author
"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking"
Alexander Smith, Poet
"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds"
G. H. Hardy, Mathematician
"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy"
Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher
"Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces"
Solon, Statesman
"Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky"
Solon, Statesman
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius"
Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer
"A man is only as good as what he loves"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings"
Martin Buber, Philosopher
"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit"
Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher
"Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything"
Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"A wise man's question contains half the answer"
Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet
"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve"
Buddha, Leader
"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire"
Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet
"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart"
Buddha, Leader
"Never cut what you can untie"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
"There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men"
Xun Kuang, Philosopher
"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear"
Lord Chesterfield, Statesman
"Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there"
Harold Macmillan, Politician
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"
Juvenal, Poet
"Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one"
Horace Greeley, Editor
"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's"
Jean Paul, Author
"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit"
Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint
"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay"
Sallust, Historian
"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live"
Nicolas Chamfort, Writer
"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty"
Billy Wilder, Director
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