Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"And plenty makes us poor"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"Words derive their power from the original word"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge, and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft

"In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft

"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft

"The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart

"The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart

"A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

Meister Eckhart

"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

Mikhail Gorbachev

"Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

Mikhail Gorbachev

"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild, agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"We think too much and feel too little"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"The evil that we know is best"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

Charlie Chaplin

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system"

Bruce Lee, Actor

Bruce Lee

"Genius is sorrow's child"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"It is well for one to know more than he says"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"How great in number are the little minded men"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"A word to the wise is enough"

Plautus, Playwright

Plautus

"Take no thought of who is right or wrong, or who is better than. Be not for or against"

Bruce Lee, Actor

Bruce Lee

"Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid"

John Dewey, Philosopher

John Dewey

"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"History is the science of things which are not repeated"

Paul Valery, Poet

Paul Valery

"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"You've got to take the bitter with the sour"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

"No one wants advice - only corroboration"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

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