William Shakespeare Philosophy Quotes

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

- William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side

- William Shakespeare

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

- William Shakespeare

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

- William Shakespeare

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

- William Shakespeare

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

- William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

- William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

- William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

- William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

- William Shakespeare

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

- Richard Monckton Milnes

A leader is a dealer in hope.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

- Epictetus

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

- Epictetus

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

- Lao Tzu

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

- Epictetus

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

- Aristotle