Wisdom Quotes
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Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
Quote by -John Milton
Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Quote by -John Milton
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
Quote by -John Milton
There is a wisdom in this; beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Quote by -Francis Bacon
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.
Quote by -Francis Bacon
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Quote by -Francis Bacon
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper - and not his oppressor - is very beautiful .
Quote by -Thomas A Edison
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Quote by -Walt Disney
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.
Quote by -Doris Lessing
A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?
Quote by -Doris Lessing
As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
Quote by -Doris Lessing
“I had rather my son should learn in a tan-house to speak, than in the schools to prate.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“So much din from so many philosophical brainboxes! Trust in your philosophy now! Boast that you are the one who has found the lucky bean in your festive pudding!”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“That philosopher who orders us to conceal ourselves and to care for no one but ourselves and who wishes us to remain unknown to others, wants us even less to be held in honour and glory by them. He also advised Idomeneus in no wise to govern his actions by reputation or by common opinion, except to avoid such incidental disadvantages as the contempt of men might bring him.10 Those words are infinitely true, in my opinion, and are reasonable.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“how I would hate the reputation of being clever at writing but stupid and useless at everything else! I would rather be stupid at both than to choose to employ my good qualities as badly as that.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Philosophy believes she has not made a bad use of her resources when she has bestowed on Reason sovereign mastery over our soul and authority to bridle our appetites.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“I have a mind that belongs wholly to itself, and is accustomed to go its own way. Having never until this hour had a master or governor imposed on me, I have advanced as far as I pleased, and at my own pace. This has made me slack and unfit for the service of others; it has made me useless to any but myself.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate—and who can live off their death.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not in himself.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“there is nothing in the whole world madder than bringing matters down to the measure of our own capacities and potentialities. How”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“Assaulted as I am by ambition, covetousness, rashness and superstition, and having such enemies to life as that within me, should I start wondering about the motions of the Universe?”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“The more simply we entrust ourself to Nature the more wisely we do so. Oh what a soft and delightful pillow, and what a sane one on which to rest a well-schooled head, are ignorance and unconcern.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“If it lay in my power to make myself feared, I had rather make myself beloved.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.
Quote by -Nick Hornby
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
Quote by -Nick Hornby
There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.
Quote by -Nick Hornby
There are things that I really find important, and that we need to remind ourselves of. When you think about disability, do you really think about it? Someone who's a full-time trainer or a boxer, someone who's got a major disability, but who doesn't let that get in his way, that's a really good message for someone who is able-bodied. It can make them think, 'Wow, I suppose I could be doing better for myself.'
Quote by -Idris Elba