Famous Quotes & Sayings

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

Baruch Spinoza

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Arthur Koestler

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Aristotle

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Alexis Carrel

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleister Crowley

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Albert Einstein

The important things are always simple.

Albert Einstein

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Alfred North Whitehead

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Alfred North Whitehead

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Alex Ferguson

Promise is one thing. Fulfilling that promise is quite another.

Aldous Huxley

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

Aldous Huxley

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Aldous Huxley

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

Albert Pike

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.