Art Quote by Elizabeth Charles

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express…

— Sophie Scholl

“When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart”

— Subhan Zein

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

— Hannah More

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Therefore a sage has said, 'I will do nothing (of purpose), and the people will be transformed of themselves;”

— Lao Tzu

“Words have an immense power over people. Words represent ideas and thoughts. No matter what anyone says, we all care, to a certain extent,…

— Alison G. Bailey

“We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words only and only if life have put and made us requiring them.”

— Toba Beta

One must always say every word with consideration, and should not say what one does not wish to happen. Those who do not understand…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson