Wisdom Quotations

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

Showing 361 through 379 of 379 quotations in this category.

"The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind."

-Loren Eiseley

"The body says what words cannot."

-Martha Graham

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."

-Juvenal

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy."

-Thomas Aquinas

"A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man."

-Gustave Flaubert

"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course, there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out."

-Italian Proverb

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."

-David Dunham

"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression."

-Eugene Wigner

"From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars."

-Heraclitus

"The way up and the way down are one and the same."

-Heraclitus

"Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."

-Heraclitus

"Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the 'name' of a thing."

-Havelock Ellis

"The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion."

-Charles K. Ogden

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."

-Euripides

"We can invent only with memory."

-Alphonse Karr

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

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