Words Of Wisdom Quotes
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.
When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
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.
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.
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.
..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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.
Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.
It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.
