Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Wise Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

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Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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"If You Would Take, You Must First Give, This Is The Beginning Of Intelligence."

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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

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If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

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I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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