Democritus Quotes

Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.

Democritus

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• We are wiser than we know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Wisdom
  • Wiser

• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Follow

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Courage

• I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Differences

• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Wisdom
  • Better
  • Fate

• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Wisdom
  • Stars
  • Ship

• It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Wisdom

• It is important to learn that love is your life, love is spirituality.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Thinking
  • Business
  • Marriage

• But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Interesting
  • Directors
  • Critics

• I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Time

• Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.

  

  Democritus
  • Wisdom