Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing"

Socrates, Philosopher

Socrates

"The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy"

William Penn, Leader

William Penn

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can be carved"

Immanuel Kant, Philosopher

Immanuel Kant

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

Kurt Vonnegut

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled"

Horace, Poet

"The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

Dale Carnegie

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same"

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

"Power is the great aphrodisiac"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

Henry A. Kissinger

"I am human, and let nothing human be alien to me"

Terence, Playwright

Terence

"It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me"

Anaxagoras, Philosopher

Anaxagoras

"A man is known by the silence he keeps"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity"

Kofi Annan, Statesman

Kofi Annan

"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"God is in the details"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"The middle course is the best"

Cleobulus, Poet

Cleobulus

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision"

Stevie Wonder, Musician

Stevie Wonder

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought"

Henri Bergson, Philosopher

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"The historian is a prophet looking backward"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence"

Paracelsus, Scientist

Paracelsus

"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt"

Eric Sevareid, Journalist

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel"

Horace Walpole, Author

"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others"

Don Shula, Coach

"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

Paul Harris

"Don't fix what's not broken"

Robert Atkins, Doctor

Robert Atkins

"True strength is delicate"

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson, Sculptor

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