| Wisdom and Truth "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." --William Saroyan "Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference." --Anonymous "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." --Anatole France "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." --Author Unknown Churchill's commentary on man: "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." "Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd havepreferred to talk." --D.J. Kaufman "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba Eban "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." --Albert Einstein "The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it."--Stanley Kubrick "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."--Thomas Edison "Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."--George Iles "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl Jung "The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind." -- Heinrich Heine "It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." -- Gandhi "Treat people as they are and they remain that way. Treat them as though they already were what they can be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." --Goethe "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." --H.L. Mencken "I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them."--Eleonora Duse "Speak when you're angry � and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret." --Laurence Peter "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." --Cato The Elder "Nowhere is it written that you must have faith or trust in anyone or anything. But consider the alternative." - Source Unknown "Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." -- Charles Caleb Colton "Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be." - Source Unknown "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." --Plato "The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations." --Celia Green "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." -- Helen Keller "When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived." - Henry David Thoreau "One should count each day a separate life." --Seneca Continue to next page |