Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Hermann Hesse

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hermann Hesse

I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Hilaire Belloc

Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Heraclitus

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Heraclitus

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

Heraclitus

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

Heraclitus

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

Heraclitus

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Khalil Gibran

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

Khalil Gibran

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Khalil Gibran

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

Khalil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Khalil Gibran

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

Khalil Gibran

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Khalil Gibran

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Khalil Gibran

My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Khalil Gibran

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Kerry Stokes

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

Napoleon Hill

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Og Mandino

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Og Mandino

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Norman Mailer

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

Orson F. Whitney

We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.