Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

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• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Respect
  • Wisdom
  • Listen

• 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

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Tangled

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• Giving opens the way for receiving.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Wisdom

• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Wisdom
  • Judge

• You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Wisdom

• It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

  

  James Hillman
  • Wisdom

• The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Past
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Wisdom

• All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Wisdom
  • Grief

• If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Art
  • Wisdom

• Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • May
  • Fall
  • Wisdom

• Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Desire
  • Wisdom
  • Sleep

• The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

  

  Umar
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • inspirational

• People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Father
  • Son

• Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lost
  • Party
  • Poet

• When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Grew Up

• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wisdom
  • Models
  • Departing