Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 12

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill,
To turn the current of a woman''s will.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one''s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...

In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce multiple interpretations.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Gather therefore the rose, whilst yet is prime. For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower.

Education is the progressive discovery of ignorance.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard''s power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It''s us and our homemade masks.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Count the garden by the flowers,
never by the leaves that fall.
Count your life with smiles
and not the tears that roll.

Love may hurt you, but it will never hurt the one you love.

There is but one genuine love potion: consideration.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is inefficiency An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

You can''t have everything. Where would you put it?

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn''t get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

A room without a book is like a body without a soul.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That''s what a reputation is. You can''t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams.