Wise Philosophical Quotes

#1. There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, and vice-versa.

Robert Breault

#2. In fact, Carol and I have told each other more than once that if the spirit of brokenness and calling on God ever slacks off in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, we'll know we're in trouble, even if we have 10,000 in attendance.

Jim Cymbala

#3. Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#4. If you begin to ask questions, you will find the answers.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#6. Creation is scientific.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

Barack Obama

#8. Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart

Munia Khan

#9. Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Scott Caan

#10. No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics.

A Gentlemen

#11. A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. It's not always wise to assume that just because the surface of the world appears undisturbed, life is where you left it.

Jan Ellison

#13. Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

Tess Gerritsen

#16. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#17. There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Giacomo Leopardi

#18. Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

Laura Schlessinger

#19. Well, sometimes it's not about the birds and the bees, is it? Sometimes it's about the birds and the birds, or the bees and the bees.

Lisa Henry

#20. Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

Beverly Cleary

#21. Every past used to be a future once upon a time

Munia Khan

#22. The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film.

Abbas Kiarostami

#23. I want to be happy and free, living and loving for me.

Lou Rawls

#24. Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

Lee Ann Womack

#25. Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.

Munia Khan

#26. A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Confucius

#27. It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee

Munia Khan

#28. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

William Shakespeare

#29. I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.

Markus Zusak

#30. Walk in the light while you have the light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing

Munia Khan

#33. Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio's stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.

Sabina Murray

#34. Our sweetest hopes rise blooming. And then again are gone, They bloom and fade alternate, And so it goes rolling on. I know it, and it troubles My life, my love, my rest, My heart is wise and witty, And it bleeds within my breast.

Heinrich Heine

#35. The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

Jay Leno

#36. I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Anna Held

#38. Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#39. There is divinity within every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Love is love, even if it is illicit; like light remains light even in the darkness.

Munia Khan