Selected Quotations

Speak few words, but say them with quietude and sincerity, and they will be long lasting, for a raging wind cannot blow all morning, nor a sudden rainstorm last throughout the day.

Tao Te Ching

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Theodore Roosevelt

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter Drucker

Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

Use no way as way, use no limitation as limitation.

Bruce Lee

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.

Dave Barry*****Pulitzer Prize Winner

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

He who strikes the first blow admits he’s lost the argument.

Chinese Proverb

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tiding of antiquity.

Cicero

It is easy to hate and it is very difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are easy to get.

Confucius (K'ung Fu Tzu)

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Abigail Van Buren

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this life everything he’s got.

Walter Cronkite

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocoles

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Lucius Seneca

Though I am grateful for the blessings of weath, it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Lois Bujold

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

Don’t put it off until tomorrow. Tomorrow there may be a law against it.

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