Victor Hugo Quotes

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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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

• 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

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Friends
  • Democracy
  • United

• 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

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Step

• We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • First
  • United States
  • United

• Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Happy
  • Wisdom
  • Human

• 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

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

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Wisdom
  • Stars
  • Ship

• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wisdom
  • Healthy
  • Wisest

• 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

• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.

  

  John Adams
  • Good
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• O Beloved of Hearts, I beseech only You. Have pity this day on those who turn to You. My Hope, my Rest, my Delight, this heart can love none other but You.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Rest

• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  

  George Eliot
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Actions

• If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Feelings
  • Felt
  • Eloquence

• My interests are not really with television, per se.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Television
  • Interests
  • Per

• Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wisdom
  • United
  • Eloquence