Relevant Quotes: Smart Folk

Men’s maxims reveal their characters.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.

Diogenes

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Oscar Wilde

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus, Greek philosopher

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J Boorstin

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

If you look for the good in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Abraham Lincoln

He who builds to every man’s advice will have a crooked house.

Danish proverb

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright

Never answer a letter when you’re angry.

Chinese proverb

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Machiavelli

The Prince

People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

Robert Keith Leavitt

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Samuel Johnson

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(1803 - 1882)

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you. It’s what you know that ain’t so.

Will Rogers

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Johann W. von Goethe

“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”

Colonel Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell, 1984

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

Johann W. von Goethe

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

Will Rogers

Success is dependent on effort.

Sophocles

Relevant Quotes: Smart Folk

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