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 better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

-Samuel Johnson

"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds."

-The Koran

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

-Henri-Frederic Amiel

"If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."

-Sun-Tzu, The Art of War

"Stop thinking of each other as different religions, or different cultures, or different ethnicities, or nationalities, and start thinking of each other as human beings. As people with the same aspirations, and the same dreams, the same conflicts and the same issues."

-Reza Aslan

"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

-S. Weir Mitchell

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

-Ghandi

"Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven."

-Yiddish proverb

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

-Albert Einstein

"In wildness is the preservation of the World."

-Henry David Thoreau

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

-Winston Churchill

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."

-Gail Sheehy

"Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is preceived in a situation previously considered disordered."

-Haneef A. Fatmi

"Once for all I wish to be blind to many things--Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language."

-Benjamin Lee Whorf

"Nothing endures but change."

-Heraclitus

"The obvious is always least understood."

-Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich-Winneburg

"Man errs as long as he strives."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

-Saint Augustine

"To choose rationally, one must choose morally."

-David Gauthier

"In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Every path serves a purpose."

-Gene Oliver

"To understand is to perceive patterns."

-Isaiah Berlin

"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."

-Lord John Russell

"By seeking the beginnings of things, a man becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards: in the end he also believes backwards."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

-Albert Einstein

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

-Doris Lessing

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."

-Dalai Lama

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

-Vincent Van Gogh

"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will."

-Albert Einstein

"Science aims to give us theories which are empirically adequate; and acceptance of a theory involves as belief only that it is empirically adequate."

-Bas van Fraassen

"All men by nature desire to know."

-Aristotle

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

-Samuel Johnson

"The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on."

-David Gelernter