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A Few Interesting Quotations
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Anonymous:
- Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
- Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
- Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
- Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your
words when you are with people.
Jacinto Benavente:
- Si la gente nos oyera los pensamientos, pocos escaparíamos de
estar encerrados por locos.
Niels Bohr:
- Predition is risky, especially of the future.
Albert Camus:
- La grandeur de l'homme est dans sa décision d'être
plus fort que sa condition.
- En vérité, le chemin importe peu, la volonté
d'arriver suffit a tout.
Dale Carnegie:
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired
their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we
could have paradise in a few years.
G. K. Chesterton:
- People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Chinese Proverb:
- It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Georges Clémenceau:
- Les fonctionnaires sont comme les livres d'une bibliothèque:
les plus hauts placés sont ceux qui servent le moins.
- Un trâitre est un homme politique qui quitte son parti pour s'inscrire
à un autre. Par contre, un converti est un homme politique qui quitte son
parti pour
s'inscrire au vôtre.
Confucius:
- Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing,
to recognize that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to
recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge.
- It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Thomas Dewar:
- Minds, like parachutes,
only function when they are open.
Phyllis Diller:
- Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty
fades, so will his eyesight.
Jean Echenoz:
- Accommodé avec un regard et un sourire appropriés,
le silence peut donner d'excellents résultats.
Thomas Edison:
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.
James Elliot:
- He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot
lose.
Walter Elliot:
- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or
appreciated.
- The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own
powers.
Epictetus:
- Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by
their opinions of the things that happen.
Benjamin Franklin:
- Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far
more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing in the tempting place.
Thomas Fuller:
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
Mahatma Gandhi:
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do
are in harmony.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops
of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going
to die tomorrow.
Khalil Gibran:
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than
you need.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence
to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his
wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
André Gide:
- Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find
it.
- Il est extrêmement rare que la montagne soit abrupte
de tous côtés.
- C'est un art de contempler ce que les ans nous apportent
plutôt que ce
dont ils nous privent.
- Rien n'empêche le bonheur comme le souvenir du bonheur.
- Enseigne aux autres la bonté, tu peux avoir besoin de
leurs services.
- Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie
et qu'écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout
près de la folie quand on rêve, tout près de la raison
quand
on écrit.
Johann W. Goethe:
- Eigentlich weiss man nur, wenn man wenig weiss; mit dem Wissen wächst
der Zweifel.
Graham Greene:
- When we are not sure, we are alive.
- When one door closes another opens; but we often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Ernest Hemingway:
- There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true
nobility
is being superior to your former self.
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- A mind once stretched by a new idea
never regains its original dimension.
William James:
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices.
Lyndon Baines Johnson:
- I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant
visions are learned in the homes of our people.
Franz Kafka:
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we
create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new
bureaucracy.
Emmanuel Kant:
- Weil der Besitz der Gewalt das freie Urteil der Vernunft unvermeidlich
verdirbt.
John F. Kennedy:
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate,
contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and
unrealistic.
Soeren Kierkegaard:
- Life can only be understood by looking backwards, but it must be lived
looking forwards.
- Genius never desires what does not exist.
François de La Rochefoucauld:
- Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune
que la mauvaise.
- Nos vertus ne sont, le plus souvent, que des vices
déguisés.
- Il y a dans le coeur humain une génération
perpétuelle de passions, en
sorte que la ruine de l'une est presque toujours l'établissement
d'une
autre.
Martin Luther King Jr.:
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Michelangelo:
- The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
William Osler:
- We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we
can from, Life.
- Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
- If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine
might as well be a science, not an art.
José Ortega y Gasset:
- El que no pueda lo que quiera, que quiera lo que pueda.
- Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias.
Plato
- A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he
has to say something.
Pythogoras:
- Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
Bertrand Russell:
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel
quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk
with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired
their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we
could have paradise in a few years.
William Saroyan:
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through
failure.
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The greatest happiness you can have is
knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer:
- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the
limits of the world.
Albert Schweitzer:
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Happiness is nothing more than good health
and a bad memory.
George B. Shaw:
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Baruch Spinoza:
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Ben Sweetland:
- Success is a journey, not a destination.
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 and far away.
Leo Tolstoy:
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.
W. Triesthof:
- You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Chuang-Tse:
- Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Lao Tzu:
- A good traveler has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.
- If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious,
you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the
present.
Alfred N. Whitehead:
- To see what is general in what is particular and what is permanent
in what is transitory is the aim of scientific thought.
Anthony Douglas Williams:
- Spending time with children is more important than spending money on
children.
Allan Wilson:
- If everyone whose experiments failed stopped doing science,
there wouldn't be any science today.
Zénon d'Élée: (Zenon of Elea)
- La nature nous a donné deux oreilles et une langue afin de
pouvoir écouter davantage et parler moins.
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