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Top 200 Philosophic Quotes (pt. 2)

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By Nikita MaltcevPublished about a year ago 3 min read
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Top 200 Philosophic Quotes (pt. 2)
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." - Joseph Campbell

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela.

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha

"The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on." - Yoda (Star Wars)

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." - Marcus Aurelius

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese

"It is not what you look at that matters, it is what you see." - Henry David Thoreau

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." - Rachel Carson

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." - Plato

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." - Aristotle

"One cannot step twice in the same river." - Heraclitus

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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