Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"No one does anything from a single motive"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Good and bad men are less than they seem"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"Nature is wont to hide herself"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have, it buys at the cost of soul"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"A man's character is his guardian divinity"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"Prejudices save time"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

Robert Byrne

"A man of pleasure is a man of pains"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The house of laughter makes a house of woe"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"The purpose firm is equal to the deed"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"A soul without reflection, like a pile without inhabitant, to ruin runs"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"Wise it is to comprehend the whole"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"None think the great unhappy, but the great"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"They only babble who practise not reflection"

Edward Young, Poet

Edward Young

"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

T. S. Eliot

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future"

Ayn Rand, Writer

Ayn Rand

"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts"

Adam Smith, Economist

Adam Smith

"Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind"

Leo Rosten, Novelist

Leo Rosten

"This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones"

Desmond Morris, Scientist

Desmond Morris

"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

Kin Hubbard

"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"Governments never learn. Only people learn"

Milton Friedman, Economist

Milton Friedman

"But far more numerous was the herd of such, who think too little, and who talk too much"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"All objects lose by too familiar a view"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"Words are but pictures of our thoughts"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

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