"Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man."

Thomas Fuller

 

 

 

 

 

Famous Proverbs and Quotations - Page 2


Continued from Page 1 - I

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandi

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started....the fate of humanity is in his hands.
- Abraham Lincoln

Books are the compass and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
- Jesse Lee Bennett

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
- Cicero

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
- Albert Einstein

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- Emerson

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, the dunces are all against him.
- Jonathan Swift

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- Michael Corleone, in The Godfather

To live life effectively is to live with adequate information.
- Norbert Weiner

Logic is the art of making the truth prevail.
- La Bruyere

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. 
- Stephen W. Hawking

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.
- Charles W. Eliot

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lipman

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin Disreali


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