Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"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

"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

"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

"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

"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

William S. Burroughs

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

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

Isaac Newton

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

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

Gustave Flaubert

"The things that we love tell us what we are"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"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

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

George Washington, President

George Washington

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

Horace, Poet

"He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

Simon Bolivar

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Please all, and you will please none"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"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

"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing"

Robert Burns, Poet

Robert Burns

"Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"Good is not good when better is expected"

Vin Scully, Celebrity

Vin Scully

"All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!"

Carlos Castaneda, Writer

"Politics makes strange bedfellows"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"Don't give advice unless you're asked"

Amy Alcott, Athlete

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

Amelia Barr

"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it"

Esther Williams, Actress

"We have met the enemy, and he is us"

Walt Kelly, Cartoonist

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe"

Lao Tzu, Author

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be"

Lao Tzu, Author

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want"

Lao Tzu, Author

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