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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"'All truth is simple.' --Is not this a double lie?"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

-Beverly Sills

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

-Longfellow

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

-Thomas Edison

"The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true."

-Andrew Sullivan

"The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil."

-Bertrand Russell

"Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't."

-unknown

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm."

-Friedrick Nietzsche

"Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger when he is starving."

-Proverbs 6:30

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

-Abraham Joshua Heschel

"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of facts. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible."

-Gottfried Leibniz

"A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult."

-Proverbs 12:16

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."

-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"A prudent question is one half of wisdom."

-Francis Bacon

"Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals."

-Albert Einstein

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

-Bill Cosby

"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."

-Jacob Bigelow

"The road up and the road down is one and the same."

-Heraclitus

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."

-Arthur Conan Doyle

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

-Sheldon Kopp

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing."

-Nancy Astor

"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

-Honore de Balzac

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only moral interpretation of phenomena."

-Nietzsche

"The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness."

-Stephen Spender

"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."

-Bertrand Russell

"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."

-Loren Eiseley

"New technologies have been disrupting existing equilibria for centuries, yet balanced solutions have been found before."

-Pamela Samuelson

"To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage."

-Confucius Analects

"There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice."

-Sovereign

"A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult."

-Proverbs 12:16