Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We can't all do everything"

Virgil, Writer

"From one, learn all"

Virgil, Writer

"Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses"

Virgil, Writer

"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"Consequences are unpitying"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Breed is stronger than pasture"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within"

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Those who do not complain are never pitied"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it"

Salvador Dali, Artist

Salvador Dali

"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

Thomas Huxley

"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"Faultless to a fault"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity: coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

Charles Caleb Colton

"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

Charles M. Schulz

"Nature and wisdom never are at strife"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"The wildest colts make the best horses"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"Neither blame or praise yourself"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"In words are seen the state of mind, and character, and disposition of the speaker"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

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