WISDOM QUOTES
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Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.

There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who
cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.
-Cyrus H.K. Curtis

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a
decision without information. -John Erskine

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
-Seneca

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the
question.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could
govern their tongues. -George D. Prentice

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but
prevents others from becoming so. -C. C. Colton

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
-Thomas Wentworth Higginson

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by
unfolding his powers. -Erich Fromm

In prosperity, prepare for a change. In adversity, hope for one.
-James Burgh

Do not judge your friend until you stand in his place.

Keep your words sweet! You never know when you will have to eat them!

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll
believe you. But if you tell him a bench has just been painted, he'll
have to touch it to be sure.

Don't take the wrong side in an argument just because your opponent
has taken the right side. -Baltasar Gracian

Don't argue with someone whose neck is bigger than your head.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. -Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -Francis Bacon

Opportunity knocks only once, but temptation bangs on your door for
years.

Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
-Denny J. Brake

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right
sometimes. -Winston Churchill

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and
remove all doubt. -Socrates, Lincoln, Twain

Give some people an inch and they think they are rulers.

He who knows little quickly tells it. -Italian proverb

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -Publilius Syrus

Many people do very efficiently what needs not be done at all.

You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.
-Miller's law

Imitation is the most serious form of flattery.

Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the
questions.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up
before you get it. -Sidney Howard




Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly
teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
-Mark Twain

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners
of the sea, we chart our course by them. -Carl Schurz

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person. -Ralph Bunche

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing
things as they ought to be done. -Josh Billings

Character is not made in crisis - it's only exhibited. -Robert Freeman

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered
himself is mightier still. -Lao Tse

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already done. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

Two heads are better than one theory.

No one person can wear all the hats all the time.

A man who burns all of his bridges better be a real good swimmer!

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Minds are like parachutes - work best when open.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Do what you will but make sure you will it.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -Aldous Huxley

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want
most for what we want in the moment.

If you're not a liberal when you're twenty, you have no heart. If
you're not a conservative when you're forty, you have no brain.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to
your grandmother.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we
can solve them. -Isaac Asimov 

Don't pay the ferryman before he gets you to the other side.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Many a false step is made by standing still.

A snowflake is a very fragile thing, by itself.... but just look what
happens when they stick together!

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
-Edward Thorndike

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
-Confucius

We are each of us angels with but one wing, and can only fly by
embracing each other. -Luciano Decrescenzo

He who has a thing to sell
And goes and wishes in a well
Will not as likely get the dollars
As he who climbs a tree and hollars.

Yesterday is History, tomorrow is a Mystery, today is a Gift,
that's why it's called 'The Present'  ...  Carpe Diem !

A mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions.

That which is beautiful is not always good. But that which is good is
always beautiful.

He who sweats more in peace, bleeds less in war.

The only thing you need to know about a country is whether people are
trying to get in, or get out. -Louis Rukeiser

The Earth Is But One Country And Mankind Its Citizens -Bahá'u'lláh

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it
well. -René Descartes

To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you
are.

Each and every one of us has a right to be exactly who we are.

That which the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the
beginning.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.

The water that is past cannot make the mill go.

Setting out well is a quarter of the journey.

You can observe a lot just by watching. -Yogi Berra

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for
freedom and truth.

Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually
right.

A pesimist is an optimist with experience.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. -Dixie Lee Ray

The only existing things are atoms in space. All else is mere opinion.
-Democritus

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad
judgment.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Together, everyone achieves more.

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others
wonder what has happened...

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

The Ten Most Important Two-Letter Words:
 If it is to be, it is up to me.

You never miss the water until the well runs dry.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton