The wise have always said the same thing... by Arthur Schopenhauer | We Heart Quotes

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Time

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Want Man

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Dogs

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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