Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"In fair weather, prepare for foul"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"One must steer, not talk"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Luck is a matter of preparation, meeting opportunity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life is warfare"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If you judge, investigate"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first, a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, like People, like Government"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Be not a slave of words"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"There are as many opinions as there are experts"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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