Plato Quotes, Wise Quotes, Mob Rule Quotes

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Wise Quotes , Men Quotes

The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

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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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You create your own universe as you go along.

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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

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Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Wise Quotes , Nature Quotes

The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.

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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

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Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

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If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wisdom Quotes

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

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Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wise Quotes , Hate Quotes

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

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It pays to be prepared.

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One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

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A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

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It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Wise Quotes

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

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