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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
121. By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
122. Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
123. Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
124. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
125. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
126. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
127. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
128. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
129. Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
130. Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
131. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
132. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
133. Education is civil defence against media fallout.
134. Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
135. Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
136. Education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
137. Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
138. Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
139. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
140. Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.
141. Egotism is the anaesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
142. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
143. Enlightenment has no definite form or nature by which it can manifest itself, so in Enlightenment itself, there is nothing to be enlightened.
144. Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
145. Ever notice that "what the hell" is always the right decision?
146. Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
147. Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
148. Everything is controlled by a small evil group to which, unfortunately, no one we know belongs.
149. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
150. Everything we really need to know we learned in kindergarten.
151. Everything you can imagine is real.
152. Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
153. Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
154. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
155. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
156. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
157. George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but he also admitted doing it. Now, do you know why his father didn't punish him? Because George still had the axe in his hand.
158. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
159. Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
160. Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
161. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.
162. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
163. Growing old is not growing up.
164. Grub first, then ethics.
165. Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding, for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and its profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
166. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
167. He is wise that is wise to himself.
168. He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
169. He who hesitates is probably smart... or maybe stapled to the floor.
170. He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
171. He who looks on another's wife as a mother, on another's goods as a clod of earth, and on all creatures as himself, is a wise man.
172. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
173. He whose fear of sin takes precedence over his wisdom, his wisdom will endure; but he whose wisdom takes precedence over his fear of sin, his wisdom will not endure...He whose works exceed his wisdom, his wisdom will endure; but he whose wisdom exceeds his works, his wisdom will not endure.
174. Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
175. His high endeavours are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright.
176. Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
177. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
178. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
179. Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse.
180. I always thought looking back on the times I cried would make me laugh; but
181. I always try to go the extra mile at work, but my boss always finds me and brings me back.
182. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
183. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 99% how I react to it.
184. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
185. I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
186. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
187. I am not religious, I just love the Lord.
188. I am not young enough to know everything.
189. I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
190. I asked for everything so I could enjoy life. Instead, He gave me life so I could enjoy everything.
191. I asked Mom if I was a gifted child...she said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
192. I believe in the Big Bang theory. God spoke and BANG! It was.
193. I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night. (Smith Wigglesworth)
194. I can lead you to the water but I can't let you drink.
195. I can resist everything except temptation.
196. I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
197. I close my eyes in order to see.
198. I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
199. I don't need your attitude I have one of my own.
200. I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
201. I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow.
202. I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
203. I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
204. I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
205. I had dreams and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
206. I hate quotations.
207. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advice them to do it.
208. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
209. I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.
210. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
211. I just got lost in thought . . .. It was unfamiliar territory.
212. I just want to turn on the light and have it work...I don't want to know where the electricity comes from.
213. I know Karate! ...And several other Japanese words.
214. I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favour?
215. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
216. I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
217. I never knew looking back on the times I laughed would make me cry.
218. I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
219. I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
220. I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.
221. I'd rather do something and fail than do nothing and succeed!
222. 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.
223. If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
224. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
225. If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilisation.
226. If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
227. If Darwin was right you will probably figure it out in a few million years.
228. If God is your co-pilot, switch seats with Him!
229. If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
230. If I mess up today, thank God I can start over tomorrow.
231. If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms.
232. If innocence can leave guilt can come.
233. If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy -- he'll know what to do with it.
234. If nobody knows the troubles you've seen, then you don't live in a small town.
235. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
236. If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
237. If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
238. If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to thy will.
239. If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
240. If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?