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