Quotes about words-of-wisdom
words-of-wisdom records trials
Charles Dickens Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Charles Dickens Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Charles Dickens Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
Charles Dickens A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Charles Dickens Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Charles Dickens Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Charles Dickens Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-of-wisdom causes obvious
David Hume The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
words-of-wisdom desire use
Carlos Castaneda Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?
words-of-wisdom taoism sound
Benjamin Hoff "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh ," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said."
words-of-wisdom starting metaphysics
Aristotle Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
words-of-wisdom
Aristotle ... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
words-of-wisdom deals subjects
Aristotle ... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
words-of-wisdom principles substance
Aristotle ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
words-of-wisdom principles movement
Aristotle ...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
words-of-wisdom causes principles
Aristotle It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
words-of-wisdom action human-nature
Abraham Lincoln Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
words-of-wisdom african-american heritage
Stanley Crouch The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
words-of-wisdom african-american trying
Stanley Crouch If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
words-of-wisdom hieroglyphics may
Michael Faraday When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
words-of-wisdom connected
Plato And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
words-of-wisdom use philosopher
Plato And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
words-of-wisdom
Nick Cave I've got some words of wisdom.
words-of-wisdom want waste
Michel de Montaigne If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
words-of-wisdom trying may
Jesse Jackson If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
words-of-wisdom african-american be-careful
Gwendolyn Brooks Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
words-of-wisdom
Gottfried Leibniz Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
words-of-wisdom elements shapes
Gottfried Leibniz Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
words-of-wisdom granted subjects
Gottfried Leibniz I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
words-of-wisdom problem proof
Immanuel Kant Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
words-of-wisdom would-be foundation
Immanuel Kant Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
words-of-wisdom african-american want
Nikki Giovanni Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.