Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

Pythagoras

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much"

John Wayne, Actor

John Wayne

"Success and failure are equally disastrous"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

Tennessee Williams

"There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"You can't fatten the pig on market day"

John Howard, Statesman

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"If an ass goes travelling, he will not come home a horse"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

Albert Schweitzer

"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos"

Will Durant, Historian

Will Durant

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"

Thomas Hooker, Leader

Thomas Hooker

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

Malcolm Bradbury, Novelist

Malcolm Bradbury

"The body is the substance of the stone"

George Ripley, Activist

"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Precaution is better than cure"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"With foxes we must play the fox"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Haste is of the Devil"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

Niels Bohr

"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

Julian Casablancas

"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody"

William Gilbert, Composer

William Gilbert

"Every disadvantage has its advantage"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

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