Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon, but that they set eye on the earth"

Norman Cousins, Author

"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along"

Harvey Cox, Theologian

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities"

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"Hunger knows no friend but its feeder"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly"

Stendhal, Writer

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

Christopher Dawson

"We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it"

Thucydides, Historian

"Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"The examined life is no picnic"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Culture makes all men gentle"

Menander, Poet

Menander

"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion"

Alexander the Great, Leader

Alexander the Great

"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions, he will be likely to make trouble"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

Donella Meadows

"Our laughter is always the laughter of a group"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"A mind too active is no mind at all"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn"

Robert Southey, Poet

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting"

Carlos Castaneda, Writer

"Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright"

Jose Marti, Activist

"A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal"

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Statesman

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

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