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"Speech is the mirror of the soul"
Publilius Syrus, Poet
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
"Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The fool wonders, the wise man asks"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins!"
Lord Byron, Poet
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"In conversation, humor is worth more than wit, and easiness more than knowledge"
George Herbert, Poet
"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"The ego is not master in its own house"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"
Marcus Aurelius, Soldier
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"You can learn from anyone, even your enemy"
Ovid, Poet
"The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy"
William Penn, Leader
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing"
Socrates, Philosopher
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be"
Kurt Vonnegut, Author
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled"
Horace, Poet
"The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action"
Raymond Holliwell, Author
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye"
H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author
"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason"
Hal Borland, Author
"Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory"
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same"
Coco Chanel, Designer
"It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me"
Anaxagoras, Philosopher
"A man is known by the silence he keeps"
Oliver Herford, Author
"The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others"
Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet
"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave"
Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet
"It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds"
R. D. Laing, Psychologist
"The middle course is the best"
Cleobulus, Poet
"God is in the details"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it"
Edith Wharton, Author
"And he that strives to touch the stars, oft stumbles at a straw"
Edmund Spenser, Poet
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