Nakharar Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Nakharar, so much wisdom! ~ Evelyn the Greatest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted April 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." Frank Outlaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004 How very funny. Makes me wanna... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 He who does not desire power is fit to hold it. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD), Letter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 Got this in an e-mail today ----------------------------------------------- Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this. To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Rule 4: ; If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity. Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time. Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. If you agree, pass it on. If you can read this - Thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English -Thank a soldier!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted May 3, 2005 Report Share Posted May 3, 2005 Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) style_images/master/snapback.png ok that's it. you r officially nominated as the best wisdom quote finder around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koko Posted May 3, 2005 Report Share Posted May 3, 2005 Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." Frank Outlaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights: Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 1 scene 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 In heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakharar Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am. Marilyn Manson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Emerson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MosJan Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 Emerson ? is that Emerson Electronics Maral jan ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nakharar Posted May 5, 2005 Report Share Posted May 5, 2005 A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anonymouse Posted May 6, 2005 Report Share Posted May 6, 2005 If you wish to live wisely, ignore wise sayings including this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skhara Posted May 7, 2005 Report Share Posted May 7, 2005 "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." - Iosef Stalin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maral Posted May 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2005 When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both bad and evil: bad people do not know about either. --- C. S. Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anahit Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 (edited) 君子不以言举人，不以人废言。 （The superior man does not promote a man simply because his fine words, nor discards good words because of the speaker.） 孔子曰：“三人行，必有我师！择其善者而从之，择不善者而改之”。 Edited May 11, 2005 by Anahit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 (edited) "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930) "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." - James Branch Cabell "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975) "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone (1899-1947) -pay close attention to this one!!! Edited May 14, 2005 by gamavor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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