Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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

Derek Walcott, Playwright

Derek Walcott

"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"High thoughts must have high language"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"Hunger knows no friend but its feeder"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

Louis Pasteur

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

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"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

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"World history is a court of judgment"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Our laughter is always the laughter of a group"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"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

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

Harvey Cox, Theologian

"History is philosophy teaching by examples"

Thucydides, Historian

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

Stendhal, Writer

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Only great minds can afford a simple style"

Stendhal, Writer

"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

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

Sarah Bernhardt

"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

Omar Khayyam

"One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state, a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo"

Jose Marti, Activist

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things"

Bruce Barton, Author

Bruce Barton

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

Ralph Ellison, Author

"A mind too active is no mind at all"

Theodore Roethke, Poet

Theodore Roethke

"In philosophy, if you aren't moving at a snail's pace, you aren't moving at all"

Iris Murdoch, Author

Iris Murdoch

"Culture makes all men gentle"

Menander, Poet

Menander

"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid"

Homer, Poet

Homer

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

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

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