J. Z. Knight, fully Judy Zebra Knight, born Judity Darlene Hampton

Mere survival has always been the surface, bottom-line surface for our existence... Survival alone does not ennoble us... True meaning... can be found in what we’ve yet to accomplish, in the realm of the unknown. We must resolve to look deep within, at the unrealized potential of our unevolved selves. Materially, the unknown is one vast nothingness; potentially, it is all things. The unknown within us is where all dreams, thoughts and genius are frozen. The act of searching to make known the unknown triggers the brain. It allows us to incorporate, in ourselves, a greater consciousness, lighting the way for our dreams to enact themselves. Although we seem small in comparison with the whole universe, we are equipped with the greatest cosmic hookup ever created: the human brain. The brain - linked unconsciously to the infinite mind where the unknown resides - only facilitates thoughts, it does not create it. In struggling to find the answer to why we exist, we awaken the infinite mind to the unknown, making known the unknown, bringing meaning to our existence and commonness to all.

Consciousness | Dreams | Existence | Genius | Meaning | Mind | Survival | Universe | Wisdom |

M. de Montlosier, fully François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary.

Good | Sense | Wisdom | Wit |

Mayer Rothschild, fully Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.

Boldness | Caution | Fortune | Wisdom | Wit |

Propertius, fully Sextus Propertius NULL

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

Man | Wisdom | Wit |

Francis Quarles

Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

Better | Custom | Deliberation | Fear | Kill | Resolution | Wisdom | Wit |

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Man | Men | Wisdom | Wit |

Christian Scrivner, pseudonym Gotthold

If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keeping check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground.

Little | Stupidity | Wisdom | Wit |

Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.

Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

The essence of every species of wit is surprise; which, vi termini, must be sudden; and the sensations which wit has a tendency to excite are impaired or destroyed as often as they are mingled with much thought or passion.

Passion | Thought | Wisdom | Wit | Thought |

Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses - to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader’s imagination.

Imagination | Learning | Wisdom | Wit |

Sydney Smith

The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is very deservedly driven out of good company.

Good | Ideas | Language | Wisdom | Wit |

John Dewey

Philosophy has the task and the opportunity of helping banish the concept that human destiny here and now is of slight importance in comparison with some supernatural destiny.

Destiny | Opportunity | Philosophy |

Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus

The power of population is infinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases at a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will show the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

Acquaintance | Earth | Man | Power | Will |

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Lord John Russell

[A proverb is] the wit of one man, the wisdom of many.

Man | Wisdom | Wit |

Jonathan Schell, fully Jonathan Edward Schell

One thing is certain, that the poet is the only true an, and the best of philosophers is a mere caricature in comparison to him.