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Think like a wise man

 


Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian Proverb

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury

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