Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"For every benefit you receive, a tax is levied"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be great is to be misunderstood"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Those that won't be counseled can't be helped"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Observe all men, thyself most"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Every step of life shows much caution is required"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"To create something, you must be something"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The human mind will not be confined to any limits"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Imagination rules the world"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us!"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

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