Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Benjamin Franklin

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Benjamin Franklin

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Benjamin Franklin

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Benjamin Franklin

What you would seem to be, be really.

Benjamin Franklin

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Benjamin Franklin

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

Barbara Tuchman

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Avicenna

Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is the foundation-stone of religion; and religion is the means by which the soul is purified of all that pollutes it. Prayer is the worship of the first cause of all things, the supreme ruler of all the world, the source of all strength. Prayer is the adoration of the one whose being is necessary.

Anton Chekhov

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

Anton Chekhov

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

Anton Chekhov

I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Baltasar Gracian

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracian

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

Baltasar Gracian

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Baltasar Gracian

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Baltasar Gracian

Be first the master of yourself

Baltasar Gracian

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Anthony Trollope

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Desiderius Erasmus

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Dean Koontz

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

Daniel Goleman

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Daniel Handler

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Bodhidharma

Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Bodhidharma

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.

Brigham Young

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.