Wise Quotes and Sayings

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me !

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.

Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

I don’t know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

A winner listens, a loser just waits untill it is their turn to talk.

Guns don’t kill people — people do.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

If you are not part of the cure, then you are part of the problem.

The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

The best things in life are not things.


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  • 1. Jenny wrote on 27 July, 2007, 20:30
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    Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian, anymore than standing in your garage makes you a car.

  • 2. Rocco wrote on 17 August, 2007, 23:09
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    never challenge an old man, because if you lose, you’ve lost to an old man, and if you win, so what?

  • 3. kizza wrote on 29 August, 2007, 5:36
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    half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have spent most of life trying to save

  • 4. Adolfo Julius wrote on 11 September, 2007, 21:34
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    It is only with the heart that one can truly see,anything else is essential

  • 5. taskeen wrote on 14 September, 2007, 3:20
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    He who indulges in a task without proper knowledge will deteriorate rather than improve the case. (Prophet Mohammad (s))

  • 6. taskeen wrote on 14 September, 2007, 3:22
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    There is no good in extravagence, however, there can never be extravagence in good deeds. (Prophet Mohammad (s))

  • 7. taskeen wrote on 14 September, 2007, 3:24
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    Opportunities slide away like clouds. (Prophet Mohammad (s))

  • 8. taskeen wrote on 14 September, 2007, 3:49
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    Victory is gained by resolution and determination. (Prophet Mohammad (s))

  • 9. sage wrote on 17 September, 2007, 15:53
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    remember the past, live in the present, for their is no future and there never will be

  • 10. Autumn Davis wrote on 21 September, 2007, 16:31
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    I thought i had a best friend once.but it was only an illusion.trust your first instinct.

  • 11. ^_^ wrote on 21 September, 2007, 19:57
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    It is because of it’s emptiness that the cup is useful.

    When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness.

    The wise advise leaders to shun force. force inevitably recoils against it’s user.

    The apprentice who tries to take the carpenters place, always cuts his hands.

  • 12. Blaise wrote on 22 September, 2007, 23:00
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    I made this one myself ^_^ & I’m 13

    Shout your wrathful throughts unto the valley, if only your bitter echo returns, what more can you expect from your fellows.

  • 13. mikey wrote on 24 September, 2007, 2:30
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    its not about how hard you hit

    its how hard u get hit and keep moving foward

  • 14. Chillaxin wrote on 25 September, 2007, 9:04
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    In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King Jr

  • 15. live love laugh wrote on 25 September, 2007, 16:57
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    life isnt about how many breathes you take but about the moments that take your breathe away

  • 16. Sabahat wrote on 26 September, 2007, 16:52
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    A wise man’s actions speak for himself.

  • 17. *Tasha wrote on 29 September, 2007, 22:02
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    the only difference between try and triumph is a little umph…

  • 18. justin wrote on 1 October, 2007, 19:13
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    people should not be afraid of there goverments/ goverments should be afraid of there people

  • 19. elgee wrote on 2 October, 2007, 17:46
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    never wrestle with a pig-you both get dirty but the pig likes it

  • 20. Ahmed Seoudy wrote on 3 October, 2007, 17:52
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    50% of the Solution is to put your hands on the problem.

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