MY WISE FRIEND

INTRODUCTION

By: Nelfa Chevalier

On this page of My Wise Friend, you are going to find a series of sayings that we have listened and presently use. Many of these phrases were originated thousands of years ago that were the results of the knowledge and thoughts of intelligent men. Their wisdom reflects the people of their time, and the following generations. The great spirit of these wise people is reflected in each phrase, and it projects towards all of spaces on earth until it is united to the intelligence of all the people.

The objective of My Wise Friend, is to obtain knowledge and education simultaneously supporting the main ideas and believes from the people who made history. It’s worthy and talented trajectory with their legacies have been of great benefits for all. These personages marked with their ideas and facts the advance and progress of the later generations. These contributions have been recognized as a merit to all icons of science, art and culture; and they are an enormous pride for all of humanity.

Many of these great men mentioned here, opened the doors to the technology that nowadays we enjoyed. Some of them, made their support to the field of science, these are the scientists and the inventors. Others, offered the art and the culture, such as Architects, painters and sculptors. All of them represent of Universal History, within their different stages and aspects. These geniuses were altruistic, they consecrated their lives working in order to get a common interest.

Hoping that all of these phrases will be of utility and affability because of the knowledge of these extraordinary thinkers outstanding figures of their times.They were icons of sciences, the art and the culture generally. I have provided the remarkable phrases of each one of them, in its different style and categories. All the others will be published in the edition of My Wise Friend, this would take place soon.

 

ARISTÓTELES QUOTES

 

• “Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had”.

• “Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”.

• “Education is the best provision for old age”.

• “He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god”.

• “It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why anyone should have a knowledge of it”.

 

RENE DESCARTES QUOTES

 

• “Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it”.

• “Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems”.

• “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well”.

• “The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues”.

 

THOMAS ALVA EDISON QUOTES

 

• “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits”.

• ” I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe”.

• “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”.

 

ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES

 

“A person start to live, when he can live outside himself”.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new”.
“As far as the the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality”.
“Common sense, is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen”.
” Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater”.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in the school.”
“Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity”.
“Gravitation is not responsible, for people falling in love”.
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds”.
“God does not care about our mathematics difficulties. He integrates empirically”.
“I am convinced that God does not play dice.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.
“I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details”.

 

GALILEO GALILEI QUOTES

 

• “Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had”.

• “Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”.

• “Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered”.

• “Law is order, and good law is good order”.

 

LOUIS PASTEUR QUOTES

 

• “Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism”.

• “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind”.

• “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity”.

• “Science brings men nearer to God”.

ALEXANDRE DUMAS QUOTES

 

• “Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts”.

• “We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dante replay; for them we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude”.

 

MOLIERE QUOTES

 

• “A witty woman is a devil at intrigue”.

• “I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes”.

• “Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.”

• “We die only once, and for such a long time!”.

 

JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET QUOTES

 

• “Life is fired at us point blank”.

• “Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us — by obligations, not by rights”.

• “The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the “self-satisfied man”.

 

FRANCISCO QUEVEDO QUOTES

 

• “He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future”.

• “In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!”.

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LUCIO ANNEO SENECA QUOTES

 

•”A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment”.

•”It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor”.

•”Not for life, but for school do we learn”.

•”Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember”.

 

MARCO TULIO CICERON

 

••”A friend is, as it were, a second self”.

•”Endless money forms the sinews of war”.

•”Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it”.

•”Genius is fostered by energy”.

•”Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”.

•”While the sick man has life, there is hope”.

 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON QUOTES

 

•”A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands”.

•”Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door”.

•”Every hero becomes a bore at last”.

•”Great geniuses have the shortest biographies”.

 

PLATO QUOTES

 

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”.
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity”.
“Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike”.
“God is not the author of all things, but of good only”.
“Friends have all things in common”.
“The beginning is the most important part of the work”.
“The gods are not magicians who transform themselves; neither do they deceive mankind in any way.”
“The examined life is not worth living”.
“You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”.

THOMAS CARLYLE QUOTES

 

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility”.
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness”.
“Clever men are good, but they are not the best”.

 

VOLTAIRE QUOTES

 

“A witty saying proves nothing”.
“Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
“Man is free at the instant he wants to be”.
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything”.

THOMAS ALVA EDISON QUOTES

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“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple”.
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration”.
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves”.
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless”.
“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking”.
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything”.

 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN QUOTES

 

“Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us”.
” Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote”.
“Each man has two countries, I think: His own, and France”.
“There never was a good war or a bad peace”.

 

BLAISE PASCAL QUOTES

 

“All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment”.
“Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you — will quiet your proudly critical intellect”.
“Go to confession and communion; you will find it a relief and a strengthening”.
“I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal”.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES QUOTES

 

“By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece”.
“I was so free with him as not to mince the matter”.
“Let every man mind his own business”.
“Tomorrow will be a new day”.

 

ALEXANDRE DUMAS QUOTES

 

“All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!”.
“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts”.
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more”.

 

VÍCTOR HUGO QUOTES

 

“A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed!”.
“I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses”.
“Music is the vapor of art”.
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better”.

SALVADOR DALI QUOTES

 

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad”.
•”It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself”.
“What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms”.

 

FRANCISCO DE GOYA QUOTES

 

“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels”.

 

PABLO PICASSO QUOTES

 

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it”.
“For a long time I limited myself to one color as a form of discipline”.
“People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree”.

DANTE ALIGHIERI QUOTES

 

• “Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me”.

• “Love hath so long possessed me for his own and made his lordship so familiar”.

• “Necessity brings him here, not pleasure”.

• “The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less”.

 

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

 

“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises”.
” Love that is not madness is not love”.
“What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams”.

 

RUBEN DARIO QUOTES

 

“I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose”.
“My pick is working deep in the soil of this unknown America, turning out gold and opals and precious stones, an altar, a broken statue. And the Muse divines the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The strange life of a vanished people emerges from the mist of time”.
“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost”.
“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life”.

 

JOSÉ MARTÍ QUOTES

 

“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.”
“A knowledge of different literature is the best way to free one’s self from the tyranny of any of them”.
“A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men”.
“Day and night I always dream with open eyes”.
“Life on earth is a hand to hand mortal combat… between the law of love and the law of hate”.
“Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it”.
“To beautify life is to give it an object”.
“I am good, and like a good thing I will die with my face to the sun”.

 

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUOTES

 

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words”.
” Better three hours too soon than a minute too late”.
“Expectation is the root of all heartache”.
” Give thy thoughts no tongue”.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS QUOTES

 

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”.
” Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish”.
” Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”.

 

WINSTON CHURCHILL QUOTES

 

“A sheep in sheep’s clothing”.
•” I do think impunity is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it”.
•”Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”.

 

MAHATMA GANDHI QUOTES

 

“Jealousy does not wait for reasons”.
“I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education”.
“Nothing is impossible for pure love”.
“My life is my message”.
“Selfishness is blind”.

 

BENITO JUAREZ QUOTES

 

“Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace”.
“Adversity discourages none but contemptible peoples”.

 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES

 

•”Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way”.
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”.
“do not like that man. I must get to know him better”.

 

GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES

 

• “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action”.

• “I die hard but am not afraid to go”.

• “Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all”.

• “There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature”.