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Friday, January 20, 2012

Wise Sayings

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.
Guns don’t kill people — people do.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozel
The best things in life are not things.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Beware of a man of one book.
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

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