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OF WISDOM
ACCUMULATED ALONG THE WAY The greatest under-developed territory lies beneath your hat The wisdom of life consists of the elimination of nonessentials. The universe has no center. Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, hastened, or blocked. I have often regretted my speech, seldom my silence. Prejudice is being down on what we are not up on. One just man causes the devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. Things turn out for the best to those who make the best out of the way things turn out. Choose the good life and habit will make it pleasant. A man wrapped in himself makes a very small bundle. A secret of content is knowing how to enjoy the things that you have and to be able to lose all desire for the things beyond your reach. When success turns a persons head, he faces failure. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose when we might win, by making us fear to attempt. The more we know, the stronger we are in our choices. A lie can travel half way around the world, while the truth is still putting on its shoes. A criminal is nothing more than you and me at our weakest - found out. One learns manners from those who have none. An admission of error is a sign of strength rather than a confession of weakness. A foreigner is a friend I haven't met yet. The father is the head of the house. The mother is the heart of the house. Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. We are all manufacturers: making goods, making trouble; or making excuses. If anyone speaks evil of you, live so that none will believe it. The more you know, the more you know you don't know. If you blame others for your failures, do you credit others for your success? There is nothing permanent but change. The aim of education is to enable a man to continue his education. We often see things not as they are, but as we are. Still waters run deep, but how can they run if they are still? A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. Discussion is an exchange of ideas. Arguments are the exchange of ignorance. Not the quarry, but the chase. Not the trophy, but the race. The best rule I know for talking is the same one I learned for carpentry: Measure twice; saw once. A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Never forget that you are part of the people who can be fooled some of the time. Who gossips to you will gossip about you. Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. Wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing and doing what is best worth doing. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance. Machines increase the number of things we can do without thinking - there's the real danger. There's no sense in advertising your troubles - there's no market for them. The fellow who worries about what people think of him wouldn't worry so much if he knew how seldom they do. No wise man ever wished to be younger. Peace is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it. Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. Life is a voyage in which we choose neither vessel nor weather, but much can be done in the management in the sails and the guidance of the helm. A good memory is fine - but the ability to forget is the test of greatness. Genius is only patience in disguise. * * * |
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