Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well, wisest and best of all"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean"

John Locke, Philosopher

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"

John Locke, Philosopher

"The best vision is insight"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world"

Clive James, Author

"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others"

Susan Sontag, Author

"What we need is to use what we have"

Susan Sontag, Author

"It is not the position, but the disposition"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Beauty awakens the soul to act"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"Elegance is refusal"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: No one thinks he needs more of it than he already has"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"By polluting clear water with slime, you will never find good drinking water"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The wisest of the wise may err"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Since long I've held silence, a remedy for harm"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together"

Anais Nin, Author

"We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us"

Thomas Merton, Author

"A daydream is an evasion"

Thomas Merton, Author

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