Aristotle Quotes
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?Aristotle
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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 -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara -
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
E. Joseph Cossman -
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
Karel Capek -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
Octavia Spencer -
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 -
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
Henry David Thoreau -
To-day, artists and those who love artists seem like fossils. Imagine a megatherium or a diplodocus stalking the streets of Paris! There you have the impression that we must make upon our contemporaries. Ours is an epoch of engineers and of manufacturers, not one of artists.
Auguste Rodin -
I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
Kanye West -
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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?
Aristotle