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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"He that's secure is not safe"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"He that won't be counseled can't be helped"
Benjamin Franklin, Politician
"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"A person hears only what they understand"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Great and good are seldom the same man"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit"
Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader
"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator"
Cicero, Philosopher
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"He who knows best knows how little he knows"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something"
Plato, Philosopher
"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The fool wanders, a wise man travels"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"Scalded cats fear even cold water"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"A good garden may have some weeds"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care"
William Blake, Poet
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough"
William Blake, Poet
"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star"
William Blake, Poet
"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"The universe is wider than our views of it"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth"
Albert Schweitzer, Theologian
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The best prophet of the future is the past"
Lord Byron, Poet
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