Famous Quotes Flashcards
Who is often attributed with the phrase ‘the fool doth think he is wise’?
William Shakespeare
“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
Epicurus
Which philosopher said ‘we cannot live better than in seeking to become better’?
Socrates
‘Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.’
Aristotle
Who said ‘be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle’?
Plato
‘Democracy is the road to socialism and socialism ultimately leads to communism.’
Karl Marx
Who stated ‘No man is free who cannot control himself’?
Pythagoras
‘To be is to do’ suggests that our actions and behaviors define our essence or identity, emphasizing that simply existing is insufficient and that we must actively engage with the world.
Immanuel Kant
What is the meaning of ‘You are what you think’?
Confucius
Who is known for the statement ‘I think; therefore, I am’?
Descartes
‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.’
opening line of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract
‘to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary’
Thomas Aquinas
Who is attributed with the quote ‘Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions’?
David Hume.
‘What worries you, masters you’
John Locke
Who said, ‘I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day’?
This quote is by Vincent van Gogh.
Who is often misattributed with the quote ‘I have never let my schooling interfere with my education’?
It is often attributed to Mark Twain, but it was actually said by Grant Allen.
‘I am free, and that is why I am lost’
Franz Kafka
Who said, ‘A thought comes when it will, not when I will’?
This quote is by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
‘You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live’
Hermann Hesse
‘An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior’
Viktor Frankl
Who said, ‘It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not’?
This quote is by Andre Gide.
‘Always do what you are afraid to do’
Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop’
Rumi
‘First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak discourses’
Epictetus
