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"Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude"
Raymond Holliwell, Author
"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot"
Anatole France, Novelist
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom"
Anatole France, Novelist
"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery"
Henry Miller, Writer
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it"
Niels Bohr, Physicist
"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
"Don't fight forces, use them"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself"
Henry James, Writer
"What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?"
Henry James, Writer
"Silence is argument carried out by other means"
Che Guevara, Revolutionary
"I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me"
Terence, Playwright
"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's"
Olin Miller, Writer
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
Charles Eames, Designer
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it"
John Steinbeck, Author
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us"
David Hilbert, Mathematician
"Power is the great aphrodisiac"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"All noble things are as difficult as they are rare"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"After all is said and done, more is said than done"
Aesop, Author
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions"
Alfred Adler, Psychologist
"Play is the exultation of the possible"
Martin Buber, Philosopher
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it"
Harper Lee, Novelist
"The pine stays green in winter... Wisdom in hardship"
Norman Douglas, Writer
"Nothing very, very good and nothing very, very bad ever lasts for very, very long"
Doug Coupland, Author
"Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides"
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points"
Alan Kay, Scientist
"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision"
Stevie Wonder, Musician
"History is a vast early warning system"
Norman Cousins, Author
"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse"
Zhuangzi, Philosopher
"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye"
Miyamoto Musashi, Soldier
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly"
Edward Albee, Dramatist
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special"
Stephen Hawking, Physicist
"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength"
Phil Jackson, Coach
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful"
Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer
"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars"
Charles A. Beard, Historian
"Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people"
Hu Shih, Philosopher
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