Anton Chekhov Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

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We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

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Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.

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Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

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Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

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OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

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What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

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