Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"The things we remember best are those better forgotten"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

Baltasar Gracian

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent"

John Donne, Poet

John Donne

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

Stanley Kubrick

"Give him enough rope and he will hang himself"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

Charlotte Bronte

"I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures"

James Thurber, Comedian

James Thurber

"Imagination is the eye of the soul"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

Saul Bellow

"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

Samuel Adams

"When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

Xun Kuang

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

Jimmy Buffett

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer"

John Keats, Poet

John Keats

"They that know no evil will suspect none"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep"

John Cage, Composer

John Cage

"We carry our homes within us, which enables us to fly"

John Cage, Composer

John Cage

"Sacred cows make very poor gladiators"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"If you don't understand yourself, you don't understand anybody else"

Nikki Giovanni, Poet

Nikki Giovanni

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life"

Charles Lamb, Critic

Charles Lamb

"Wisdom begins at the end"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"

William Morris, Designer

William Morris

"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

Quentin Crisp

"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"You exist only in what you do"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

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