Philosophy & Thought: Wisdom Quotes

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"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

Laurence J. Peter

"Every body has so good an opinion of their own understanding as to think their own way the best"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"Supposing everyone lived at one time, what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Counting is the religion of this generation: it is its hope and its salvation"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Action and reaction are equal and opposite"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"No matter how far a person can go, the horizon is still way beyond you"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"It is one of the blessings of this world, that few people see visions and dream dreams"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"When they are alone, they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"There's no right or wrong, success or failure"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

Miley Cyrus

"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism"

Orson Welles, Actor

Orson Welles

"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Love is the cheapest of religions"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher, not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"People hate as they love, unreasonably"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Never give advice in a crowd"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Desire is the essence of a man"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

Alexis Carrel

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