The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Children are educated by what the grown-up is
and not by his talk.
- Carl Jung
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Only the educated are free.
- Epictetus
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
The invisible and nonexistent look much alike.
- Delos B. McKown
Hold on with a bulldog grip,
and chew and choke as much as possible.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
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