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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"It is the property of fools, to be always judging."

-Thomas Fuller

"If you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right."

-Paul Graham

"Through no talent of our own, we have the privilege of knowing far more than [was known in] past centuries. Aristotle would be blown away by what any schoolchild could tell him today. That's the kind of privileged century in which we live."

-Richard Dawkins

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

-George Orwell

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

-Albert Einstein

"Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning."

-Proverbs 9:8-9

"He who answers before listening- that is his folly and his shame."

-Proverbs 18:13

"Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man's friend deserts him."

-Proverbs 19:4

"Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion."

-Francis Bacon

"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."

-Seneca

"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."

-Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."

-Justice Anthony Kennedy

"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."

-Charles Sorenson

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."

-Paul Klee

"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

-Miguel de Cervantes

"What one has not experienced one will never understand in print."

-Isadora Duncan

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."

-Nikos Kazantzakis

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

-Isaac Bashevis Singer

"He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god."

-Plato

"A theory must be tempered with reality."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

"By doubting we come at truth."

-Cicero

"My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."

-Gene Oliver

"Errors of haste are seldom committed singly. The first time a man always does too much. And precisely on that account he commits a second error, and then he does too little."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."

-Cousin Woodman

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."

-Arthur Calwell

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

-Confucius

"an a donkey be tragic? To perish beneath a load that one can neither bear nor throw off? This is the case of the Philosopher."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"To do two things at once is to do neither."

-Publilius Syrus

"The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it."

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"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

-George Bernard Shaw

"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."

-Thomas Kempis

"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."

-Goethe

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

-George Santayana

"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

-William Pitt