Quotes about words-of-wisdom
words-of-wisdom causes obvious
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one. David Hume
words-of-wisdom desire use
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? Carlos Castaneda
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? Charles Dickens
words-of-wisdom records trials
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
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
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
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom taoism sound
"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." Benjamin Hoff
words-of-wisdom starting metaphysics
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. Aristotle
words-of-wisdom
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
words-of-wisdom deals subjects
... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
words-of-wisdom principles substance
... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
words-of-wisdom principles movement
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
words-of-wisdom causes principles
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
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed Abraham Lincoln
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
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 hieroglyphics may
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? Michael Faraday
words-of-wisdom connected
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth? Plato
words-of-wisdom use philosopher
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
I've got some words of wisdom. Nick Cave
words-of-wisdom african-american be-careful
Be careful what you swallow. Chew! Gwendolyn Brooks
words-of-wisdom lust revelations
Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated. Kenny Smith
words-of-wisdom african-american want
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak. Nikki Giovanni
words-of-wisdom want waste
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. Michel de Montaigne
words-of-wisdom
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth. Gottfried Leibniz
words-of-wisdom elements shapes
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
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
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. Immanuel Kant
words-of-wisdom would-be foundation
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 needs quitting
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves. Scott Lynch
words-of-wisdom enemy kind
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. Marcus Aurelius