QUOTATIONS ON WISDOM, IDEAS AND THINKING




1.   It is not once or twice, but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
                                                                                                                                   Aristotle  

2.   Necessity is the mother of invention. So necessity is the mother of thinking.        Anonymous                                      

3.   The road to wisdom?  Well it's plain and simple  to express: err and err and err again, but less and less and less.    
                                                                                                                                   Piet Hein       
  
4.   We learn and profit through our mistakes and failures.                                        M. K. Gandhi
  
5.   One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.    A.A. Milne   

6.   Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by  'madness'  and written by reason.                Andre Gide    

7.   The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have lots of ideas, even if some
      of  them are wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas.                            Edward de Bono    

8.   Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.                    Victor Hugo     

9.   The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.        Marcel Proust

10. The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.                        Paul Fix

11. The universe is made of stories not atoms.                                                            Muriel Rukeyser  

12. When all think alike, no one thinks much.                                                               W. Lippmann    

13. The history of mankind is the history of ideas.                                                        Luigi Pirandello    

14. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotations.             Benjamin Disraeli

15. To be integrated, to be coherent, one has to be honest.                                        Anonymous    

16. Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.                                                 T. Jefferson     

17. Wise is he who collects the wisdom of others.                                                         Juan Guerra Caceras  

18. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.                 Thomas A. Edison   

19. Common sense is genius homespun.                                                                      A.N. Whitehead  

20. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.                S.Coleridge       

21. If you imagine it, you can achieve it.                                                                        William Arthur Ward     

22. No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.              Edmund Burke  

23. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours, we must
      think over them again honestly, until they make roots in our personal experience.                         Goethe   

24. You will never have any mental muscle, if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.                      D. Lave      

25. In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you are going to be small.                    Emeril Lagasse

26. People who believe a problem can be solved, tend to get busy solving it.                 William Raspberry     

27. Words are the clothes that thoughts wear - only the clothes.                                    Samuel Butler    

28. Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.                   Dean W.B. Inge

29. Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.                         George Orwell

30. Ambitions without knowledge is like a boat on dry land.                                             Mark Lee  

31. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.                                                   Salvador Dali  

32. To write simply is as difficult as to be good.                                                                W. Somerset Maugham  

33. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.                         Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
                                                                                                                                        Carl T. Rowan  

35. All are 'lunatics' but he who can analyse his delusion is called philosopher.              Ambrose Bierce  

36. It is much more comfortable to be 'mad' and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.         G.B.Burgin

37. Still, if nobody dropped out of the eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates !!!                Anonymous

38. For a business class at my university, we had to interview a variety of local people and write a report. I thought the
     assignment was a waste of time until I spoke with a 78 year old farmer. "How much education do you have?" I asked.   
     "Six years of schooling", he replied, "and 72 years of learning"  !!!                              Reader's Digest  Sept.1994

39. My intellectual limits are my limits of knowing and limits of my Universe.                      (K. N. Owwell)

40. The more you worship or bow to an organized ‘god’, the more you might lose your inborn god/goodness.                                                                                                                                                        (Anonymous)

41. Superficially ‘god’ is simply goodness; by learning and living ‘god’ is integrity and honesty and by belief and worship
      ‘gods’ are images or icons.                                                                                          (Anonymous)

42. Life is natural, scientific, and statistical with fuzzy logic and probables, conclusive ideas and truth
                                                                                                                                         (K.N. Owwell)

43. Life is inbuilt capacity to grow, mature, work, reproduce, be satisfied and end.          (K. N. Owwell)

44. Why to look out for wonders in frontiers of space or galaxies, they are there in your two feet, two forearms, two
      hemispheres of brain and in more than 100 billion neurons.                                      (K. N. Owwell)

45. Isolation can be solace to ‘I’ or ego.                                                                            (Anonymous)

46. Know your ledger , you have knowledge.                                                                   (Anonymous)




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