prOverbs, sayings & wOrds Of wisdOm

Classic Quotes by Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer









A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.


Classic Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher

Tom Stoppard

English playwright

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.


Classic Quotes by Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

“Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.”

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Malcolm X (1925-1965) U.S. spiritual leader















There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.

Malcolm X (1925-1965) U.S. spiritual leader

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) U.S. writer

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!


Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English writer

"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."

adgar allan poe

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.


Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."



Langston Hughes

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

Count Basie (1904-1984) US bandleader

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist






A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.



Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Russian subversive

“Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved”

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