Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaNo one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Alexander PopeReality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
Joe BidenTruth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David ThoreauReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisAll fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce LeeThe way up and the way down are one and the same.
HeraclitusDo not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard ShawHe who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
VoltaireA man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. KennedyIf to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.
William ShakespeareWisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas JeffersonI consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.
Joyce MeyerSuccess usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David ThoreauIn the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao TzuIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John SteinbeckPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil GibranThe man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur SchopenhauerIn matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert EinsteinEvery man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert HubbardHe who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
Galileo GalileiWomen always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. MenckenI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinWho, being loved, is poor?
Oscar WildeHe who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
Lao TzuMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOne should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph AddisonPolitical language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George OrwellThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireMy company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Robert KiyosakiA physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao TzuEvery man is his own hell.
H. L. MenckenTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedyUntutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.
George S. PattonThose whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar WildeThinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PlatoMen must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander PopeReason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl MarxExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel KantSometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Jim MattisTo be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William JamesAnybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob DylanIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William JamesIs man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich NietzscheThe man of science is a poor philosopher.
Albert EinsteinEverything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob MarleyWe moralize among ruins.
Benjamin DisraeliI tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
Jean-Paul SartreFaith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise PascalA man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus AureliusI want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert EinsteinOne man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
George Bernard ShawHe who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao TzuAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
Franz KafkaWe are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.
C. S. LewisWhat then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham Lincoln