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- You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.
- Jurgen Schrempp, Former CEO of DaimlerChrysler
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- You can't surprise a man with a dog.
- Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, 2000
- If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
- Frederick The Great (1712 - 1786)
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
- Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
- Krishnamurti
- A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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