Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as Native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"Nothing made by brute force lasts"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Boredom: the desire for desires"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms"

George Savile, Politician

George Savile

"A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner"

George Savile, Politician

George Savile

"The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory"

George Savile, Politician

George Savile

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A hungry stomach cannot hear"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance"

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

Jean de La Fontaine

"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives"

Audre Lorde, Poet

Audre Lorde

"The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even"

Horace, Poet

"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered"

Horace, Poet

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone"

Horace, Poet

"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"

Horace, Poet

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"

Horace, Poet

"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view"

Horace, Poet

"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who, when they know the law, follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death"

Horace, Poet

"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"We inhabit a language rather than a country"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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