Wisdom Quotations

Wisdom: What quotations are revered for. All quotations in this category contain timeless bits of wisdom and many are quite provacative

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"Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear."

-Loren Eiseley

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

-Joseph Joubert

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you and and still likes you."

-Elbert Hubbard

"He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so."

-C.C. Colton

"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."

-Emil Nolde

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name."

-Lao-Tzu

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."

-John Lennon

"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You know nothing for sure...execept the fact that you know nothing for sure."

-John F. Kennedy

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

-Alan Saporta

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

-George Washington

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-Gandhi

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

-Doug Floyd

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

-Winston Churchill

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."

-Heinrich Heine

"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind."

-Heinrich Heine

"Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream."

-Kahlil Gibran

"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

-Ursula K. LeGuin

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

-Marie Curie

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."

-Hazlitt

"Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right."

-Henry Ford

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

-Denis Diderot

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

-John F. Kennedy

"It is not enough for a handful of experts to attempt the solution of a problem, to solve it and then to apply it. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."

-Albert Einstein

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

-Flora Whittemore

"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."

-Oscar Wilde

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

-Aristotle

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."

-C. S. Lewis

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

-William Faulkner

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."

-Lyndon Baines Johnson

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

-Herman Melville

"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found -- in himself."

-Erich Frohm

"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

-Marcus Aurelius