Wisdom Quotes
Quotes about Wisdom
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- “We wish to render the now almost forgotten Hegel what is due to him as the forerunner of Darwin. Mendelssohn, in a dispu...” — Charles Darwin
- “A light was kindled amongst the investigators of nature when Galilei let balls of a definite weight roll down the inclin...” — Galileo Galilei
- “Today a man owns a jackass worth fifty dollars and he is entitled to vote; but before the next election the jackass dies...” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Life in its entirety must be purified by the flame of achievement. The great Buddha, who preordained Maitreya, prescribe...” — Gautama Buddha
- “It seems to me that men of coarse and clumsy habits and of small knowledge do not deserve such fine instruments nor so g...” — Leonardo Da Vinci
- “When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than...” — Bertrand Russell
- “All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open ...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed t...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Smith distinguishes with great sophistication the different kinds of reasons people have in taking an interest in the li...” — Adam Smith
- “In what did Tolstoi's work actually consist? It is the outcry of the universal conscience. His works voice the conscienc...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “In bodily presence, though not commanding, at sixty he was attractive, spare in build, his voice low but harmonious, his...” — John Stuart Mill
- “I think his fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation ...” — Henry David Thoreau
- “It is a serious question among them whether they [Africans] are descended from monkeys or whether the monkeys come from ...” — Voltaire
- “To be taken without consent from my home and friends; to lose my liberty; to undergo all those assaults on my personalit...” — C. S. Lewis
- “My objection to bankers has nothing to do with personalities. I am not against bankers as such. We stand very much in ne...” — Henry Ford
- “Ibn 'Umar said, "I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say, "On the Day of Rising, a ...” — Muhammad
- “Eros is a superhuman power which, like nature herself, allows itself to be conquered and exploited as though it were imp...” — Carl Jung
- “Those men who are inventors and interpreters between Nature and Man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the wor...” — Leonardo Da Vinci
- “The idea of an all-powerful divine Being is present everywhere, unconsciously if not consciously, because it is an arche...” — Carl Jung
- “At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas...” — Carl Sagan
- “There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts...the hu...” — Carl Jung
- “The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you ...” — Carl Sagan
- “Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He ...” — Jesus
- “I know that most men - not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding...” — Leo Tolstoy
- “It is unwise to depart from the old American tradition and discriminate for or against any man who desires to come here ...” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Cicero discusses justice as the second of the four cardinal virtues (wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance) whose pre...” — Cicero
- “The powers possessed by Buddha are not miraculous, because a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature. The supreme p...” — Gautama Buddha
- “I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beau...” — Bertrand Russell
- “The man who holds the divine theory of life recognizes life not in his own individuality, and not in societies of indivi...” — God.
- “According to the Pali Suttas, Buddha never claimed the omniscience which was attributed to him by his disciples and foll...” — Gautama Buddha
- “This is the reason why all attempts to obtain a deeper knowledge of the foundations of physics seem doomed to me unless ...” — Albert Einstein
- “All this shows how ambitious I was; but I think that I can say with truth that in after years, though I cared in the hig...” — Charles Darwin
- “I suppose Abraham Lincoln knew that was what would happen. He was very wise in the ways of men. He knew how people think...” — Abraham Lincoln
- “With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-...” — Thomas Jefferson
- “For myself I would say that more than the interest and uses of the study of Welsh as an adminicle of English philology, ...” — J. R. R. Tolkien
- “We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15...” — Carl Sagan
- “What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that, practically, I have never fairly re...” — Henry David Thoreau
- “The thing that strikes me more and more-and it strikes a lot of other people, too-is the extraordinary viciousness and d...” — George Orwell
- “The idea that different aspects of visual perception might be handled in separate areas of the brain was predicted by Fr...” — Sigmund Freud
- “When Malcolm spoke (or does he still speak?) of being proud of our heritage, Black People were awakened to a new truth: ...” — Malcolm X
- “Cruel though it may sound, we must see to it that the patient's suffering, to a degree that is in some way or other effe...” — Sigmund Freud
- “Time in culture is capable of many arrangements. Dante read today sets up different relations, very likely, from Dante r...” — Dante Alighieri
- “Thought is all light, and publishes itself to the universe. It will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous o...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete tru...” — Richard Feynman
- “If death had only been the end of all, the wicked would have had a good bargain in dying, for they would have been happi...” — Socrates
- “Buddha, according to one text, "is only the elder of men, differing from them no more than as the hatched chick differs ...” — Gautama Buddha
- “Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but...” — Robert Frost
- “Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to h...” — Carl Sagan
- “Robert [Grosseteste] became much interested in science and scientific method... He was conscious of the dual approach by...” — Aristotle