“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.”
Francis Bacon
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Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.”
Francis Bacon
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
Confucius
Here’s one for the anniversary.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
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Remember.
“There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.”
Confucius
I’m still trying to figure out what this means, but it sounds interesting.
“A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.”
Albert Camus
“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
“Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one’s work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
Albert Camus
“If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.”
Albert Camus
“I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
Albert Camus