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Friday, April 8, 2011

GENERAL WISDOMS

"The capacity to learn is a gift;
The ability to learn is a skill;
The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice." -Unknown

"All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it." -John Ruskin 1819-1900

"As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's llife will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad." -Henry David Thoreau

"How like philosophers! Preening themselves for teaching black-and-white thinkers to see shades of gray and forgetting all about the reds and greens and blues and yellows and " -Susan Sparks

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -George Orwell ...on the importance of police

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"History is written by the victors." -Machiavelli

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Life of Reason, "Reason in Common Sense," ch. 12 (1905-6)

"The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." -Hegel (1770-1831)

"A thought which is not independent is a thought only half understood." -Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." -William James

"We are always the same age inside." -Gertrude Stein

"Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms." -Will Durant

"Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I exist!) -Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

"I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority." -Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

"I have had my solutions for a long time, but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them." -Karl Friedrich Gauss

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do." -Benjamin Disraeli

"Knowledge is power." -Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"When all else fails, follow the directions." -American Proverb

"To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself and now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." -Sir Isaac Newton

"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." -Unknown

"What is the first business of one who studies... To part with self conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows." -Epictetus (55-135) Greek Philosopher

"A philosophy is the expression of a man's inner character." -William James

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool." -Confucius

"I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

"For me as emperor, my city and fatherland is Rome; but as a man, I belong to the world." -Marcus Aurelius (180 A.D.) Emperor of Rome

"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one.... cities will never have rest from their evils-no, nor the human race." -Plato

"For man, the unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates

"Know thyself." -Socrates

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing." -Socrates

"Keep me from the wisdom that does not weep, and the philosophy that does not laugh." -Kahlil Gibran

"The idea that so much suffering can be in vain is intolerable to me, it kept me awake all night: I'm awake now." -Andre Gide

"Philosophy subverts man's satisfaction with himself, exposes custom as a questionable dream, and offers not so much solutions as a different life." -Walter Kaufmann

"If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told. Study it thoroughly and I will ask you. You will answer and then you will know." -"Dr. Hartley Baldwin" in Robert Heinlein's novel 'Friday'

"Those who teach, learn." -ASLET motto

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail." -Abraham Maslow

"Philosophy is man's quest for the unity of knowledge: it consists in a perpetual struggle to create the concepts in which the universe can be conceived as a universe and not a multiverse . This attempt stands without rival as the most audacious enterprise in which the mind of man has ever engaged: Here is man, surrounded by the vastness of a universe in which he is only a tiny and perhaps insignificant part - and he wants to understand it" -William Halverson

"One can tell for oneself whether the water is warm or cold." - I Ching

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'" -Unknown

"He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Nietzche

"It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." -Malcolm Forbes

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious Things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." -Mark Twain (1835-1910), U.S. author. Following the Equator, ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

"The graveyards are full of irreplaceable people." - Unknown

"If space is, it will be in something; for everything that is is in something; and to be in something is to be in space, and so on (ad infinitum). Therefore space does not exist." -Zeno of Elea

"Life is not a problem, so why are you asking for a solution?" -Unkown

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." --Theodore Roosevelt, October 12, 1915

"Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus."
False in one, false in all. -Unknown

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Old Indian Saying

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