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Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold.
It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
- Edward R. Murrow
What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- the movie Cool Hand Luke
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams
The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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