Here is a list of sayings from famous people. We truly believe that amongst these
quotations there is a piece of sage advice for any ocassion.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
What Famous People Said
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Those who do not learn the lessons of history are bound to repeat them. |
Santyana |
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. |
Chinese proverb |
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. |
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) |
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. |
Confucius |
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All things are difficult before they are easy. |
Thomas Fuller |
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. |
Samuel Johnson |
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
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I am still learning. |
Michelangelo |
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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. |
Virgil, Aeneid |
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident. |
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. |
Chinese proverb |
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The more we do, the more we can do |
William Hazlett |
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Man's
mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. |
Seneca |
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Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. |
Jean Sibelius |
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. |
Rene Descartes |
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
Will Durant |
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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare. |
Harriet Martineau |
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More Famous People
Sayings
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. |
Albert Camus |
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Do not wait for the day of judgement, it takes place every day |
Albert Camus |
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All men desire knowledge |
Aristotle |
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Education is the best provision for old age |
Aristotle |
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Well begun is half done. |
Aristotle |
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them |
Aristotle |
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