Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

G. H. Hardy

"A different language is a different vision of life"

Federico Fellini, Director

Federico Fellini

"Man has no greater enemy than himself"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"Personality is lower than partiality"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars"

Beck, Musician

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

Rabbi Hillel, Clergyman

"It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people"

Miles Franklin, Writer

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Always take hold of things by the smooth handle"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"It is not every question that deserves an answer"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third by experience, which is the bitterest"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire"

Confucius, Philosopher

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy"

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

Isaac Newton

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes"

Horace, Poet

"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story"

Orson Welles, Actor

Orson Welles

"There are always two forces warring against each other within us"

Paramahansa Yogananda, Leader

Paramahansa Yogananda

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