Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior"

Juvenal, Poet

Juvenal

"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is"

Alan Kay, Scientist

Alan Kay

"Taste is a result of a thousand distastes"

Francois Truffaut, Director

Francois Truffaut

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

Doug Larson

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"

Matsuo Basho, Poet

"Admiration and familiarity are strangers"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"Trends don't mean very much"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

Peabo Bryson

"Apathy is a sort of living oblivion"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"Common sense is very uncommon"

Horace Greeley, Editor

Horace Greeley

"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind"

E. B. White, Writer

"Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike"

Madame de Stael, Writer

Madame de Stael

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans; it presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"You cannot teach a crab to walk straight"

Aristophanes, Poet

Aristophanes

"Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Who naught suspects is easily deceived"

Petrarch, Poet

Petrarch

"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"Moderation is best in all things"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"Necessity has the face of a dog"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool"

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain"

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

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