Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 22

• One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Wish, Energy, Fields

  James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.564, Courier Corporation

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• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

  Plato

  Character, Reality, Decay

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• Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

  Plato

  Hate, Truthfulness, Truth Love

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• The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

  Plato

  Reality, Function, Objects

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• I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

  Plato

  Sorry, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (2013). “Plato - Dialogues”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• A successful unification of quantum theory and relativity would necessarily be a theory of the universe as a whole. It would tell us, as Aristotle and Newton did before, what space and time are, what the cosmos is, what things are made of, and what kind of laws those things obey. Such a theory will bring about a radical shift - a revolution - in our understanding of what nature is. It must also have wide repercussions, and will likely bring about, or contribute to, a shift in our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the rest of the universe.

  Lee Smolin

  Successful, Law, Space

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• The revolution which began with the creation of quantum theory and relativity theory can only be finished with their unification into a single theory that can give us a single, comprehensive picture of nature.

  Lee Smolin

  Giving, Revolution, Creation

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

  Lee Smolin

  Effectiveness, Principles, World

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• Any two particles in the universe attract each other through the gravitational interaction.

  Lee Smolin

  Two, Interaction, Particles

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

  Plato

  Use, Philosopher, Blame

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• Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophical, Men, Frowning

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• 'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?'
  ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

  Plato

  Believe, Thinking, Generations

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed.

  Victor Rasuk

  De Niro

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

  Stanley Crouch

  African American, Trying, Belts

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• Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Prayer, Angel, Evil

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• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Government, Law, Political

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• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Connections, All Things, Universe

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The liberated woman is not that modern doll who wears make-up and tasteless clothes. ....The liberation woman is a person who believes that she is as human as a man. The liberated woman does not insist on her freedom so as to abuse it.

  Ghada al-Samman

  Believe, Men, Clothes

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• Do your best with what you have where you are.

  Lucy Punch

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Just Being

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• Years teach us more than books.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Doing You

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