Quotes by Philosophers - Page 59

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Cicero
Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
Peter Kreeft
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
Aldous Huxley
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
John Dewey
Pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.
Baltasar Gracián
Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it.
Horace
Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
Epictetus
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
William James
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius
Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.
Eric Hoffer
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat men to whom a crises which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.
José Ortega y Gasset
Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
What does not destroy me makes me strong.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Seneca
Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.
Seneca
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Denis Diderot
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
Albert Camus
Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.
Baltasar Gracián
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Friedrich von Schiller
God alone can finish.
John Ruskin
Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.
Henry David Thoreau
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield I have learned is to come back again.
Lao Tzu
The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.
Confucius
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracián
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
Will Durant
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren.
Bertrand Russell
To knock a thing down especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight to the blood.
George Santayana
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
Alfred North Whitehead
The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
Henry David Thoreau
The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.
Bertrand Russell
Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucius
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson