Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Being is the great explainer"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"We have all forgot more than we remember"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"The more wit, the less courage"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"He is poor indeed, that can promise nothing"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone!"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Action expresses priorities"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A man is but the product of his thoughts, What he thinks, he becomes"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"If you would judge, understand"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever is well said by another, is mine"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat!"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune!"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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