Words O' Wisdom
 
 
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be hated for what you are not.
Andre Gide
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist knows it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley

Justice does not happen by chance; indeed, something that subjective may never have happened at all.
Frank Herbert  
Forceful rejection of the past is the coward's way of removing inconvenient knowledge.
Frank Herbert  
We seldom get rid of an evil merely by understanding it's causes.
Frank Herbert  
When a wise man does not understand, he says:"I do not understand". The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Frank Herbert  
The teacher who does not learn from his students does not teach. The student who sneers at his teachers true knowledge is like one who chooses unripe grapes and scorns the sweet fruit of the vine which has been allowed to ripen in its own time.
Frank Herbert  
Where pain predominates, agony can be a valued teacher.
Frank Herbert  
All the wisdom of the universe cannot match the alert willingness to dodge a violent blow.
Frank Herbert  
I'm always right. I thought I made a mistake once but I was wrong.
Philip A. Renaud  
There is a rule that states:"There is an exception to every rule." If so this means that there is a rule without an exception. Unfortunately the one rule without an exception is the rule, "There is an exception to every rule".
Xavier Murdoq  
Modesty is merely a subtle form of vanity.
Xavier Murdoq  
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Frank Herbert  
If I am not for myself, who is for me? But if I am for myself, who am I?
Frank Herbert  
Some persons speak wise words in fun but a good many others speak foolish words in earnest.
Anonymous  
If you know you don't know much then you know more than most.
Anonymous  
Good manners consist in letting others tell you what you already know.
Anonymous  
Many of us believe that wrong isn't wrong if it's done by nice people like us.
Anonymous  
Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.
Anonymous  
Most people who get something for nothing are disappointed if they don't get more.
Anonymous  
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing with the opinion of small minds.
John Stuart Mill  
Who is not satisfied with himself will; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Chinese Proverb  
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
Latin Proverb  
Perfection seems to be nothing more than a complete adaption to the environment; but the environment is constantly changing, so perfection can never be more than transitory.
W. Somerset Maugham  
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.
James McCash  
Don't hit at all if it is honourably possible to avoid it; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt  
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember the kite rises against, not with the wind.                 Hamilton Wright Mabie  
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide  
Prepare yourself for the great world, as the atheletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do, as young people are too apt to think.
Lord Chesterfield  
Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says, "My crowd doesn't run that way," I say, don't run with crowds.
Robert Henry  
Better to break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller  
Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either.
Jewish Proverb  
If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton  
It is truth very certain that when it is not in our power to determine what is true we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes  
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein  
The least persuasive flow of words
To come from tongue or pen
Are those that tell our teenage kids
How tough we had it then.
C.R. Reagan  

Tell me and I will remember
Show me and I will learn
Involve me and I will understand.

Chinese Proverb  

Most people can give better advice than they can take.

Kevin Leonard  
If voting could change things it would be illegal.
Anonymous  
What one says, if one is an honest man, reflects only what he believes. It is not necessarily what is.
Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran  
A wise man knows everything. A shrewd one, everybody.
Anonymous  
You love what you give to - and in proportion as you give.
Gordon R. Dickson  
The only true knowledge is being.
Xavier Murdoq  
Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
Alfred Korzybski  
There are none so prejudiced as the self-proclaimed victims of prejudice.
Xavier Murdoq  
No matter where you go, there you are.
Buckaroo Bonzai
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Freiderich Nietzsche
 
He who speaks much, either lies much or knows much.
Romanian Proverb
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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