Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"Envy is human nature"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

Monica Bellucci

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character"

Stendhal, Writer

"He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"I know no way of judging the future but by the past"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"By nature, men love newfangledness"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"There's never a new fashion but it's old"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget"

William Osler, Scientist

"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"Desperate affairs require desperate measures"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

Horatio Nelson

"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

George Henry Lewes

"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so"

George Henry Lewes, Philosopher

George Henry Lewes

"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness"

George Borrow, Author

"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth"

Rebecca West, Author

"The more things change, the more they are the same"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Man dies of cold, not of darkness"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

Miguel de Unamuno

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

John Ciardi

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise, not blame"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

Thomas Kempis

"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"It will not always be summer; build barns"

Hesiod, Poet

Hesiod

"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

Lucy Larcom

"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

Wislawa Szymborska

"Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"You do not notice changes in what is always before you"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"The best plan is to profit by the folly of others"

Pliny the Elder, Author

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