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Day: January 10, 2011

Wisdom Quotes and Sayings

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Some wonderful wisdom quotes and sayings for a great day :)

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

“What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now.” – The Buddha

“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

“No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less.” – Edgar Watson Howe

“A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein

“Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius

“No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

“Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

“If you try you may fail, if you don’t try you’re guaranteed to fail.” – Jesse Jackson

“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” – Leo Aikman

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” – Betty Smith

“Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.” – Elbert Hubbard

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” – Chinese Proverb

“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.” – W. Migner

“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” – James Thurber

“Wisdom is found only in truth.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” – Lao Tzu

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” –Janis Joplin

Funny Existential Quote

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Let me share with you a great funny existential quote by Mitch Hedberg:

“My belt holds up my pants and my pants have belt loops that hold up the belt. What the f*ck’s really goin’ on down there? Who is the real hero?” — Mitch Hedberg

Dream Quotes

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– “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files

– “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

– “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown

– “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

– “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

– “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

– “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

– “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

– “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

– “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

– “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.

– “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

– “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

– “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

– “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh

– “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin

– “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

– “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer

– “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda

– “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

– “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More

Fidel Castro Quotes

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– “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
– “A revolution is not a bed of roses.”
– “Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.”
– “How can we help President Obama?”
– “I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
– “I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
– “I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.”
– “I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”

– “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”

– “I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”

– “I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”

– “I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

– “Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

– “More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.”

– “No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”

– “North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.”

– “The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.”

– “The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.”

– “The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

– “They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?”