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The beginning of knowledge

  The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin READ MORE  

Rich gifts wax poor

  Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600 Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. - Henry James, from his essay about the rules of writing Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Saint Francis of Assisi...

When a man says...

  Otto von Bismarck When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. --Otto von Bismarck Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. --Aristotle Be sincere; be brief; be seated. --Franklin D. Roosevelt Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. --Sir Francis Bacon What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. --James Thurber The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain. --Susan B. Anthony Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. --Samuel Johnson I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. --Mark Twain Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a m...

10 Quotes

Elvis Presley. Photo: Google I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.  - Elvis Presley  I hate music, especially when it's played.  - Jimmy Durante  My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.  - Martin Luther If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.  - Pierre Beaumarchais  Hope is a waking dream.  - Aristotle My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.  - Mary Shelly  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Change your thoughts and you change your world.  - Norman Vincent Peale  We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.  - H. G. Wells  You can't build a reputation on what you...

10 Quotes

Henry David Thoreau. Photo: Google What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire Love is an irresistible desir...

10 quotes for today - 8 February 2019

Gambar: Google Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.  - Chuck Norris  I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.  -  Maya Angelou  Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.  - Mark Twain  We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.  - Jean-Paul Sartre  A lie told often enough becomes the truth.  - Lenin  We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.  - Aristotle An idea is salvation by imagination.  - Frank Lloyd Wright  College isn't the place to go for ideas.  - Helen Keller  When ideas fail, words come in very handy.  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and lear...

10 quotes for today - 23 January 2019

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.  - Robert Louis Stevenson  Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.  - George Bernard Shaw  A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.  - Thomas Jefferson Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.  - Socrates  Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.  - Benjamin Franklin  Happiness depends upon ourselves.  - Aristotle Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.  - Charles de Montesquieu  Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.  - Jules Renard However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results...