Anonymous:

• Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
• Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
• Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Jacinto Benavente:

• Si la gente nos oyera los pensamientos, pocos escaparíamos de estar encerrados por locos.

Niels Bohr:

• Predition is risky, especially of the future.

Albert Camus:

• La grandeur de l'homme est dans sa décision d'être plus fort que sa condition.

• En vérité, le chemin importe peu, la volonté d'arriver suffit a tout.

Dale Carnegie:

• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

G. K. Chesterton:

• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chinese Proverb:

• It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

• Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

Confucius:

• Shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge.

• It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Thomas Dewar:

• Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

Jean Echenoz:

• Accommodé avec un regard et un sourire appropriés, le silence peut donner d'excellents résultats.

Thomas Edison:

• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

James Elliot:

• He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Walter Elliot:

• Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
• The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Epictetus:

• Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinions of the things that happen.

Benjamin Franklin:

• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing in the tempting place.

Thomas Fuller:

• All things are difficult before they are easy.

Mahatma Gandhi:

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

• You must be the change you want to see in the world.

• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

• Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Khalil Gibran:

• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

• Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."

• The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

• To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

André Gide:

• Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
• Il est extrêmement rare que la montagne soit abrupte de tous côtés.
• C'est un art de contempler ce que les ans nous apportent plutôt que ce dont ils nous privent.
• Rien n'empêche le bonheur comme le souvenir du bonheur.
• Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison. Il faut demeurer entre les deux, tout près de la folie quand on rêve, tout près de la raison quand on écrit.

Johann W. Goethe:

• Eigentlich weiss man nur, wenn man wenig weiss; mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel.

Graham Greene:

• When we are not sure, we are alive.
• When one door closes another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes:

• A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

William James:

• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Lyndon Baines Johnson:

• I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.

Franz Kafka:

• Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

• By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Emmanuel Kant:

• Weil der Besitz der Gewalt das freie Urteil der Vernunft unvermeidlich verdirbt.

John F. Kennedy:

• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Soeren Kierkegaard:

• Life can only be understood by looking backwards, but it must be lived looking forwards.
• Genius never desires what does not exist.

Martin Luther King Jr.:

• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Michelangelo:

• The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

William Osler:

• We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.
• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

José Ortega y Gasset:

• El que no pueda lo que quiera, que quiera lo que pueda.
• Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias.

Plato

• A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Pythogoras:

• Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Bertrand Russell:

• I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

William Saroyan:

• Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

• The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Arthur Schopenhauer:

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Albert Schweitzer:

• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

George B. Shaw:

• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Ben Sweetland:

• Success is a journey, not a destination.

Henry David Thoreau:

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away.

Leo Tolstoy:

• Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

W. Triesthof:

• You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Chuang-Tse:

• Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Lao Tzu:

• A good traveler has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.

Alfred N. Whitehead:

• To see what is general in what is particular and what is permanent in what is transitory is the aim of scientific thought.

Allan Wilson:

• If everyone whose experiments failed stopped doing science, there wouldn't be any science today.

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