“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Charles Williams (1886–1945) British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and member of the Inklings
War in Heaven (1930), Ch. 9
“Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 2, as quoted in Against the Mathematicians by Sextus Empiricus
Variant translation: So we must follow the common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.
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Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Orthodoxy (1884)
Context: I cannot believe in the miraculous origin of Jesus Christ. I believe he was the son of Joseph and Mary; that Joseph and Mary had been duly and legally married; that he was the legitimate offspring of that union. Nobody ever believed the contrary until he had been dead at least one hundred and fifty years. Neither Matthew, Mark, nor Luke ever dreamed that he was of divine origin. He did not say to either Matthew, Mark, or Luke, or to any one in their hearing, that he was the Son of God, or that he was miraculously conceived. He did not say it.
“Wisdom's daughter walks alone,
The mark of Athena burns through Rome.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Source: Literary Remains, Vol. 1
“If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom.”
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
As quoted in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno03.htm#CH3 <br class="br">Context: If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom. What can Juno give which thou canst not receive from Wisdom? What mayest thou admire in Venus which thou mayest not also contemplate in Wisdom? Her beauty is not small, for the lord of all things taketh delight in her. Her I have loved and diligently sought from my youth up.
“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker