Learning makes the wise…
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. – John Ray (1627 – 1705) More »
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. – John Ray (1627 – 1705) More »
Help! / I need somebody, / Help! / Not just anybody. // – John Lennon (1940 – 80) “The Beatles”: Help! More »
He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 78) More »
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762) More »
No man, however great, is known to everybody and no man, however solitary, is known to nobody. – Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852) More »
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself…. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. – Mao Zedong [Tse-tung] (1893 – 1976): Speech, July 1937, Yanan [Yenan], China More »
It’s one thing to have talent. It’s another to figure out how to use it. – Roger Miller (1936 – 92) More »
The liberty of the individual must be limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. – John Stuart Mill (1806 – 73): On Liberty More »
A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits. – Richard (Milhous) Nixon (1913 – 94) More »
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. – Philip (Dormer) Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694 – 1773): Letter to His Son / If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. More »