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Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons"
John Ruskin, Writer
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"Do not consider painful what is good for you"
Euripides, Poet
Euripides
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"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy"
George Herbert, Poet
George Herbert
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"No nation has friends, only interests"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
Charles de Gaulle
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"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
Charles de Gaulle
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death"
Epictetus, Philosopher
Epictetus
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"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
Pythagoras
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"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
Pythagoras
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"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
Sigmund Freud
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"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
Sigmund Freud
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Less is only more where more is no good"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Here is the rule to remember in the future, when anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune", but "To bear this worthily is good fortune""
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up if you just dig"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
Marcus Aurelius
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"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
Bertrand Russell
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"Base souls have no faith in great individuals"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"Knowledge, the object of knowledge, and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work, and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"Every true genius is bound to be naive"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
Friedrich Schiller
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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"I know well what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"A wise man never loses anything if he has himself"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
Michel de Montaigne
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
Ambrose Bierce
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