“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
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Wisdom Quotes
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
Source: Leviathan, Parts I and II
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
Source: Saint Denis
“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”
Source: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)
Source: Last Chance To See
“The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Source: The Power of Leadership
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Source: Pensées
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
Source: Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
Source: The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays
“Self trust is the essence of heroism.”
Source: Character and Heroism