Quotes by Philosophers - Page 9

The first draught serveth for health the second for pleasure the third for shame and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
Cicero
First he wrought and afterwards he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The finer impulse of our nature.
Friedrich von Schiller
Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.
Charles Montesquieu
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Marshall McLuhan
The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.
Voltaire
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Cicero
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Cicero
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
Socrates
I die adoring God loving my friends not hating my enemies and detesting superstition.
Voltaire
Superiority is always detested.
Baltasar Gracián
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle
The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous he is free from anxiety being wise he is free from perplexity being brave he is free from fear.
Confucius
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Seneca
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Charles Montesquieu
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
Jean de La Bruyère
Sleep riches and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
William James
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.
Jean de La Bruyère
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boulding
Success produces success just as money produces money.
Nicolas de Chamfort
If you live long enough you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
Simone de Beauvoir
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.
Bertrand Russell
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
William James
Success is not greedy as people think but insignificant. That's why it satisfies nobody.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.
Blaise Pascal
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
José Ortega y Gasset
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
Albert Schweitzer
Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu
Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.
Confucius
Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one reaches a high position without daring.
Publilius Syrus
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
Vauvenargues
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods ignoring principles is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile endure awhile believe always and never turn back.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Seneca
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Oswald Spengler
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
Never having been able to succeed in the world he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Voltaire
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau