Our language is an amazing tool. So much insight can be garnered from so few words.
Share your words of wisdom here
I will start with (quite) a few.
• Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.
• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !
• Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
• 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.
• 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 philosopher.
• 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.
• Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
• 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.
• 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.
• The best things in life are not things.
• An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
• You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
• Beware of a man of one book
• He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
Source: http://www.coolnsmart.com/wise_quotes/
Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:20 pm
