Quote
“Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.”
Fontaine
People
People connected with this theme.
Aeshop
-625 – -560 Literature
Aristotles
-384 – -322 Philosophy
Bacon Francis
1561 – 1626 Philosophy
Confucius
-551 – -479 Philosophy
Diderot
1713 – 1784 Philosophy
Durant Will
1885 – 1981 Literature
Epictetus
50 – 138 Philosophy
Fontaine
1621 – 1695 Literature
Gracian
1601 – 1658 Philosophy
Pythagoras
-570 – -500 ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ
Saadi
1210 – 1292 Poetry
Socrates
-470 – -399 Philosophy
Will Durant
1885 – 1981 LiteratureQuotes
Selected words connected with this theme.
Quote
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Einstein
Quote
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
Shaw Bernard
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“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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Aeshop
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“No mortal man is wise at all moments.
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Gaius Plinius
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“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Beauvoir Simone de
Quote
“Dance, dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.”
Bausch
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“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”
Courbet Gustave
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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
Montaigne
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“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?”
Rousseau
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Kant Immanuel
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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Beethoven
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“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
Otto von Bismarck
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“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”
Eco Umberto
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“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
Fleming Ian
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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Jung Carl
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“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Gracian
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Sinclair Upton
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“There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
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Hawking
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“The one who has knowledge, he won’t condemn.
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Leino Eino
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“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
Pascal
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“Bless us with freedom, <br>bless us with wisdom,<br>
Guide into kind world,<br>”
Lysenko Mykola
Quote
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
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Parker Charlie
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“Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.
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Lagerkvist Per
Quote
“The world is the book where Eternal Wisdom wrote its own concepts.”
Campanella Tommaso
Modo di filosofare, Poesie
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“Wise people speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Plato
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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Socrates
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Nietzsche Friedrich
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“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
Hypatia
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
Russell Bertrand
Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
The Republic, Book VII
Plato · -380
# Plato — The Allegory of the Cave
*From The Republic, Book VII*
*c. 380 BC*
**SOCRATES:** And now, I said, let me show you in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened.
Imagine human beings l …
Socrates' apology
Socrates
(by Plato)
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
(an excerpt)
I have said enough in my defence against the first class of my accusers; I turn to the second class, who are headed by Meletus, that good and patriotic man, as …
Meditations
Aurelius Marcus · 180
Excerpts
Book 2
Tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, an …
The Analects
Confucius
(excerpts from Book I)
CHAPTER I.
1. The Master said, 'Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?
2. 'Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?'
3. 'Is he not …
Pensées (Thoughts)
Pascal · 1670
(excerpts)
We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We a …
The Book of Words
Kunanbaev · 1898
[The Beginning and the End of the Book]
WORD 1
What a wonderful world the Creator has given us...
For better or for worse, I have lived my life, traveling a long road filled with struggles and disputes, quarrels …
The Analects
Confucius
BOOK II. WEI CHANG.
CHAP. I.
The Master said, 'He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.'
CHAP. II.
The M …
Moralia
Plutarch
Selected Excerpts
(In this remarkable essay from Moralia, Plutarch questions the morality of eating meat and argues that humans have no natural need to kill animals for food. His reflections make him one of the earlie …
Meditations
Aurelius Marcus · 180
BOOK 4
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, at the seashore, and in the mountains; and you tend to desire such things very much. But this is a characteristic of the most common sort of men, for i …
Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.