i was grouchy coz mum told me that i should not go,coz its a waste of time,and my schedule's packed with tuition.so,i decided to tell the teacher that.teacher called mum.ring.....mum did not answer the call...so,i had to go.so,i built a water rocket there,with two girls...before that,i went to the lecture thearthe so as to listen to what this polytechnic has to offer.hmm....i might consider joining a polytechnic instead of a junior college.coz more fun.can dye hair.no need for school uniforms!hooligan gangster behaviour!yipee....!zhimin the high school boy is from singapore polytechnic.anyway,we tested the rockets in the field...our rockets flew quite high!total of 10 rockets.we filled them with water and pumped it with air.some went into the bushes,the ground,not very far.yeah,we did not win any prize...but lots of fun...but i got a small prize from the Q AND A time!yeah,i was disturbed by the teacher's remarkS LIKE I HAVE TO JOIN ANOTHER CCA...ITS ONLY A COORDINTAION PROBLEM AND SO WHAT?DANCING AND SINGING IS MY FIRST LOVE...I STRICTLY SING ONLY WITH LYRICS,BACKGROUND MUSIC AND STUFF...YEAH,A KAROKE WOULD BE GREAT!ANYWAY,SO WHAT IF I AM BAD AT DANCING,AT LEAST I AM NOT AFRAID TO SHOW IT!MUM THINKS I STILL SHOULD GO TO A JUNIOR COLLEGE.AND I JUST THINK I WILL CONTINUE WITH DANCING!SO WHAT IF I CAN'T GET ALONG WITH MY CLASSMATES WELL?I WANT TO CONCENTRATE ON MY GRADES AT THIS MOMENT!!!AND I HAVE FRIENDS FROM OT
H. Jackson Brown:
Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
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Sophia Loren:
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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David Hume:
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
George Santayana:
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
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Margaret Chase Smith:
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Fuller:
Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Mark Twain:
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.SAME AGE AS ME!DISCLAIMER:I AM NOT AN INTROVET,A UNSOCIABLE PERSON OR A SHY GIRL!!!!I WILL PUT DOWN ALL MY BOOKS WHEN I GET TO UNIVERSITY AND I COMPLETE ALL MY EDUCATION!
THEN,I WILL TAKE UP MODELLING,DANCING(all genres),SINGING,ACTING,PLAYING THE PIANO,PLAYING THE QIN,ICE-SKATING...PLAY BASKETBALL...HMM...I CAN PLAY PRETTY WELL,PLUS,SWIMMING,AND SPORTY STUFF....ANYWAY,I ALREADY KNOW QUITE A BIT OF ALL THESE,SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM!
CALL ME AMBITIOUS,I AM THAAT...I STILL NEED A DEGREE TO FALL ON.I WILL MAKE SURE I AM BETTER THAN ANY CELEBRITY AND I WILL HAVE MANY TALENTS...ANYWAY,I WOULDN'T MIND BEING A SPY,PAPPARRAZI,A REPORTER OR TAKE UP GOSSIPING AS MY TRUE PASSION!I WANT TO BE A CRITIC!I LIVE BY THIS RULES:
DO NOT BE A FOLLOWER,ALWAYS BE A LEADER
DO NOT CARE WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT YOU,YOU PROVE YOUR WORTH,THEY R WASTING THEIR BREATH!(NEGATIVE REMARKS)
ALSO,DO NOT FALL FOR FLATTERY!I AM NOT A VICTIM,GO FIND ANOTHER PREY,I WILL NOT FALL FOR YOUR TRICKS...
SUCK UP TO PEOPLE?YES I DO THAT AND ''PRETEND'' TO EAT HUMBLE PIE!SHAMELESS,RIGHT?
ALWAYS BE BOLD AND DIFFERENT!
LIKE TO EXPERIMENT OR TRY OUT A NEW HOBBY...
never give up!
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Albert Camus:
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Alfred Tennyson:
Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of man; the Federation of the world.
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Annie Dillard:
"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."
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Aristotle:
We make war that we may live in peace.
Barbara Kingsolver:
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver:
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Benjamin Franklin:
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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Blaise Pascal:
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Croesus:
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
David Friedman:
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
Dorothy Thompson:
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953]
Dwight Eisenhower:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
April 16, 1953
Ecclesiastes:
For everything there is a season,And a time for every matter under heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal;A time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh;A time to mourn, and a time to dance;A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;A time to seek, and a time to lose;A time to keep, and a time to throw away;A time to tear, and a time to sew;A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;A time to love, and a time to hate,A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Eleanor Roosevelt:
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
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General Douglas MacArthur:
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
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George Bernard Shaw:
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George W. Bush:
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.
George W. Bush:
I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.
George Washington:
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
George Washington:
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
Georges Clemenceau:
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Gertrude Stein:
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
1943
Harry Emerson Fosdick:
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.
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Hermann Goering:
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
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Howard Nemerov:
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
Howard Thurman:
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
James Russell Lowell:
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Jeanette Rankin:
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
John Adams:
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John F. Kennedy:
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
John F. Kennedy:
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy:
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
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John Stuart Mill:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Martha Gelhorn:
War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain itcauses is beyond telling or meaning; but war was our conditionand our history, the place we had to live in.
Omar N. Bradley:
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
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Patrick Henry:
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775
R. Buckminster Fuller:
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Ralph Bunche:
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Robert E. Lee:
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Ronald Reagan:
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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Simone Weil:
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Spinoza:
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.
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Theodore Roosevelt:
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918)
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Thomas Jefferson:
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Paine:
If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Will Rogers:
You can't say civilization don't advance -- for in every war, they kill you in a new way.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Audrey Hepburn:
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Blaise Pascal:
We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Felix Adler:
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.
An Ethical Philosophy of Life
Felix Adler:
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
An Ethical Philosophy of Life
Goethe:
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Izaak Walton:
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
John Dewey:
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.
Kathleen Norris:
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
Margaret Laurence:
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Marian Wright Edelman:
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.:
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi:
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.
The ConservativeRobert Louis Stevenson:
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
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Rudyard Kipling:
I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
Sogyal Rinpoche:
...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
Virginia Satir:
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Woolf:
Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
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William Ellery Channing:
I have expressed my strong interest in the mass of the people; and this is founded, not on their usefulness to the community, so much as on what they are in themselves.... Indeed every man (sic), in every condition, is great. It is only our own diseased sight which makes him little. A man is great as a man, be he where or what he may. The grandeur of his nature turns to insignificance all outward distinctions.
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William Ellery Channing:
I do not look on a human being as a machine, made to be kept in action by a foreign force, to accomplish an unvarying succession of motions, to do a fixed amount of work, and then to fall to pieces at death, but as a being of free spiritual powers; and I place little value on any culture but that which aims to bring out these, and to give them perpetual impulse and expansion.
William Lyon Phelps:
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.
Alfred North Whitehead:
Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.
C.S. Lewis:
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
Gertrude Stein:
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Han Suyin [Elizabeth Comber]:
...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
b. 1917 Chinese writer and physician
Henry David Thoreau:
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Jessamyn West:
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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May Sarton:
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck:
I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Simone Weil:
Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.
Thomas Merton:
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
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Alex Noble:
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
Andre Gide:
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
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Baltasar Gracian:
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Cicero:
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman:
It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.
Edith Wharton:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Elbert Hubbard:
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Georg C. Lichtenberg:
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
George Bernard Shaw:
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw:
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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George Burns:
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Groucho Marx:
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
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Helen Keller:
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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Henry David Thoreau:
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau:
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Isaac D'Israeli:
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
J. Michael Straczynski:
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
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Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
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Kalidasa:
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!Look to this Day!For it is Life, the very Life of Life.In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence.The Bliss of Growth,The Glory of Action,The Splendor of Beauty;For Yesterday is but a Dream,And To-morrow is only a Vision;But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.Look well therefore to this Day!Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Lin Yutang:
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Marcel Proust:
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Mark Twain:
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain - attributed in error:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Marlene Dietrich:
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.
Martin Fischer:
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Mary Catherine Bateson:
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
Mohandas K. Gandhi:
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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Norman Cousins:
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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Pierre Abelard:
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Proverbs 17:28:
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
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Rachel Carson:
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Heinlein:
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.
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Robert Louis Stevenson:
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Sam Levenson:
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
Sam Levenson:
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
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Samuel Smiles :
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Sophocles:
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles:
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Stephen Covey:
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
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Stephen Sigmund:
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
Stephen Vincent Benét:
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Sydney J. Harris:
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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Theodore Roosevelt:
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Theodore Rubin:
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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Thomas Jefferson:
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Tryon Edwards:
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Umberto Eco:
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
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Wallace Stegner:
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
William Golding:
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
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William Saroyan:
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Dianne Feinstein:
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
Harriet Woods:
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
John Kenneth Galbraith:
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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Jonathan Kozol:
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Marian Wright Edelman:
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach:
Conquer, but don't triumph.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910
Ernest Becker:
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
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Mohandas Gandhi:
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Peter Drucker:
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
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Sandra Day O'Connor:
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
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Al Franken:
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Dan Quayle:
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
John Powell:
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
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Niels Bohr:
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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Nikki Giovanni:
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.
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Paul Ricoeur :
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.
Richard Needham:
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Theodore Roosevelt:
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910
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Thomas Jefferson:
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Tryon Edwards:
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Virginia Satir:
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
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