DIVERSE QUOTATIONS
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DIVERSE QUOTATIONS
However long the night, the dawn will break.
African Proverb
Truth is its own reward.
Plato
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The road to success is lined with many
tempting parking spaces.
Anon
An error can never become true however many
times you repeat it. The truth can never be
wrong, even if no one hears it.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There are only two mistakes one
can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
The greater danger for most men lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling short,
but in setting our aim too low
and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
We don’t receive wisdom, we must discover it for
ourselves after a journey
that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu, The Way of Lao-Tzu
Man cannot discover new oceans unless
he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
Not a day passes over the earth but men
and women of no note do great deeds, speak
great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these
obscure heroes, philosophers and martyrs
the greater part will never be known.
Charles Reade
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground,
but a kind word is never thrown away.
Sir Arthur Helps
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no power on earth more
formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
A wise man can see more
from the bottom of a well than a fool can
from a mountain top.
Anon
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The price good men pay for indifference to public
affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
Our minds possess by nature an
insatiable desire to know the truth.
Cicero
To know that we know what we know,
and to know that we do not know
what we do not know,
that is true knowledge.
Copernicus
All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Steven Covey
All people are a single nation.
Koran
The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
Turn your face to the sun and
the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb
And those who were seen dancing were thought
insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
African Proverb
Truth is its own reward.
Plato
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The road to success is lined with many
tempting parking spaces.
Anon
An error can never become true however many
times you repeat it. The truth can never be
wrong, even if no one hears it.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There are only two mistakes one
can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
The greater danger for most men lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling short,
but in setting our aim too low
and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
We don’t receive wisdom, we must discover it for
ourselves after a journey
that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu, The Way of Lao-Tzu
Man cannot discover new oceans unless
he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
Not a day passes over the earth but men
and women of no note do great deeds, speak
great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these
obscure heroes, philosophers and martyrs
the greater part will never be known.
Charles Reade
No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground,
but a kind word is never thrown away.
Sir Arthur Helps
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no power on earth more
formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
A wise man can see more
from the bottom of a well than a fool can
from a mountain top.
Anon
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The price good men pay for indifference to public
affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
Our minds possess by nature an
insatiable desire to know the truth.
Cicero
To know that we know what we know,
and to know that we do not know
what we do not know,
that is true knowledge.
Copernicus
All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Steven Covey
All people are a single nation.
Koran
The significant problems we face
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
with which we created them.
Albert Einstein
Turn your face to the sun and
the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
African Proverb
And those who were seen dancing were thought
insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche







