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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~
562. To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
563. To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
564. To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
565. To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical.
566. Too clever is dumb.
567. Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
568. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
569. True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.
570. Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
571. Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.
572. Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
573. Ulcers are something you get from mountain climbing over molehills.
574. Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
575. Upon the education of the people the fate of this country depends.
576. Use soft words and hard arguments.
577. Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
578. Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
579. Victory begins with the name of Jesus on our lips, but it will not be consummated until the nature of Jesus is in our hearts.
580. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
581. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.
582. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
583. We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads.
584. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
585. We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
586. We blame fate for other accidents, but we feel personally responsible when we make a hole in one.
587. We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.
588. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
589. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
590. We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
591. We can't control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.
592. We could accomplish a lot more if we'd get rid of our ifs and and's; and get off our butts.
593. We could all take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
594. We crucify ourselves between two thieves- regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
595. We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
596. We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
597. We don't want a thing because we have found a reason for it- we find a reason for it because we want it.
598. We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
599. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
600. We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
601. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
602. We may not be what we want to be, but thank God we are not what we used to be.
603. We must become the change we want to see.
604. We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
605. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
606. We often see further through a tear, than through a telescope.
607. We see things not as they are, but as we are.
608. We should forgive our enemies, but only after they've been taken out and shot.
609. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
610. We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk.
611. We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
612. Welcome thy neighbour into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
613. Well done is better than well said.
614. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
615. What a dog I got. His favourite bone is in my arm!
616. What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.
617. What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
618. What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
619. What passes as a woman's intuition, is usually nothing more than a mans transparency.
620. What really matters is what happens in us- not to us.
621. What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
622. What some people mistake for the high cost of living, is really the cost of living high.
623. What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.
624. What we see is mainly what we look for.
625. What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
626. What you do when you don't have to do it will determine what you are when it's too late to do anything about it!
627. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
628. Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
629. Whatever you do, or dream, begin it now.. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
630. When a person wants to believe something, it doesn't take much to convince them.
631. When all desires that surge in the heart are Renounced, the mortal becomes immortal. When all the knots that strangle the heart are Loosened, the mortal becomes immortal. This sums up the teaching of the Scriptures.
632. When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed.
633. When fruit becomes big, the flower falls down of its own accord. Even so, human nature, disappears when divine nature sets in.
634. When God allows a burden to be put upon you, He will put His arms underneath you to help you carry it.
635. When God closes a door He opens a window.
636. When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, this is metaphysics.
637. When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't pray, they don't.
638. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
639. When in doubt, tell the truth.
640. When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
641. When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future.
642. When signing a contract, it helps to remember "the big-type giveth, and the small-type taketh away".
643. When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.
644. When someone says, "do you want my opinion"? It's always a negative one.
645. When the devil starts messing, God starts blessing.
646. When the government fears the people, we have liberty. When the people fear the government, we have tyranny.
647. When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
648. When the wise realise the Omni present Spirit, who rests invisible in the visible and permanent in the impermanent, then they go beyond sorrow.
649. When there's a will, there's a way.. When there's a won't, there isn't.
650. When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.
651. When we die we leave behind us all that we have and take with us all that we are.
652. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
653. When you aim for perfection you discover it is a moving target.
654. When you are arguing with an idiot, make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing.
655. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
656. When you strive to gain quiescence by stopping motion, The quiescence thus gained is ever in motion; As long as you tarry in the dualism, How can you realise oneness?
657. Where ignorance is bliss - Tis folly to be wise.
658. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
659. Who, knowing the all in all its parts, For all its phases hath no lust, By comprehension of the all He truly hath escaped all-ill.
660. Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim Wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, Obtained with labour, for mankind employed, And then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
661. Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
662. Wisdom is of times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
663. Wisdom is only found in truth.
664. Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune.
665. Wisdom is the wealth of the wise.
666. Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
667. Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
668. Wise it is to comprehend the whole.
669. Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
670. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
671. Wit is educated insolence.
672. With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
673. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
674. Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
675. Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
676. Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
677. You are cautious in showing your true self to others. Have you thought about plastic surgery?
678. You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.
679. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
680. You can tell a lot about a person by looking at what kind of people are his friends and children.
681. You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.