Quotes by Philosophers

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart
Mistake Cost Price Greater Making Than Inaction Far
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. Michel de Montaigne
Life My Life Has-Been Misfortunes Never Most Terrible Been Happened Which Full
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle
Knowledge Power Thorough Sign Exclusive Teaching
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Confucius
Teacher Myself Good Will Men Other Imitate Correct Out Bad Points Pick Am Walking Them Each Serve Two
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. John Dewey
Motivational Point Another Arriving Goal Starting Starting Point
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
Art Aim Significance Outward Outward Appearance Inward Represent Appearance Things
Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle
Politics Nature Man Animal Political Political Animal
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth Truth Is Weakness More Directly Mislead Powers Opinion False Discovery Error Effectively Preconceived Which Prejudice Reasoning Appearance Things Present
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal
Faith Light Believe Enough Those Shadows Blind Want Who
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius
Kindness Soul Practice Earnestness Virtue Circumstances Perfect Generosity Sincerity Five Things Gravity
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. Friedrich Nietzsche
People Problem Solve Solving Horrible Head Instead Nail Know Make Deal Does How Tangle Up Hit Anyone Wants Asked Should Who Whoever Harder
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith Asylum Stroll Through Casual Does Prove Anything Shows Lunatic
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their 'shadow' - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them. John Bradshaw
Good Broken Good And Evil Words Evil Good Person Somebody Own Other Our Define Bad Weaknesses Shadow Know Also Without Limitations Understand Up Person In Other Words Them Really Who Fully Conscious Consciousness Strengths
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. Karl Marx
Great History Progress Ugly Impossible Sex Changes Exactly Fair Knows Without Feminine Upheaval Anyone Anything Social Social Changes Measured Who Social Progress Included Position
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
Life Death Day Morning Youth Rest Every Birth Rising Fresh Waking Going Little Each Each Day Sleep
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius
Deceived Our Distrust More Shameful Friends Than Them
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. Immanuel Kant
Thoughts Concepts Blind Content Empty Without
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life You Dance Must Poems Write Part Look Sing Read Understand Just Just One Little Skies Whole Suffer Why
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. John Locke
Life Health Liberty Ought Possessions Independent No-One Equal Another His Being Mankind Harm
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius
Better Diamond Without Than Flaw Pebble
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. Confucius
Cowardice See Right
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth Day Every Day Lost Every Consider Danced Once Laugh At Least One Call Least Accompanied False Which Should
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke
Freedom Law States Abolish Restrain No Law End Where Capable Created Beings Preserve
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. Lao Tzu
Beautiful Good Communication Words Good Words Beautiful Words Truthful Persuasive
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You Old Crime Increasingly Penalized Like Committed Being Growing Growing Old
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle
Life Mind Energy Essence
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