Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear"

Richard Bach, Novelist

Richard Bach

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Custom reconciles us to everything"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Men would be angels, angels would be gods"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Was the ninth beatitude"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Act well your part, there all the honour lies"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Courage is grace under pressure"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"The end crowneth the work"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"Observation is an old man's memory"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person?"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Taste may change, but inclination never"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part makes men petty and vindictive"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

Leonardo da Vinci

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