Famous Quotes

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The Talmud:

Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Clarence Darrow:

The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.

George Eliot:

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Stephen Covey:

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer:

When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between the ears.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1839:

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Anthony Burgess:

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Robin Williams:

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

Robert L Schwartz:

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Louis L. Mann:

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Edwin P. Whipple:

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward

Publilius Syrus:

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience?":

Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience