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SOLID truth, in the long run, can be common sense clarified. [With Thomas H. Huxley]
THE DESIRE to seem clever often keeps us from being so. [François de La
Rochefoucauld]
ContentsBriefingIn the following are some words to consider:
THE CHEERFUL loser looks like a winner. [Cf. Elbert
Hubbard]GOOD SAYINGS can contain wit and wisdom, and look ruthless. Thus, wit and wisdom is attuned to ruthlessness. Said in other words: Wit can be ruthless. TO TAKE care of, nurture and protect their dear ones, many let victims pay the price. With too narrow resources for sharing, many small members of society start to suffer like tamed animals started earlier, in days gone by. Long ago, many a war started for reasons like that. THE MAN who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] HOW LITTLE it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. [H. L. Mencken]
LIFE IS amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be
a medium for that amazement. [Edward Blishen] Seeking to EvolveSeeking to evove, we should get aided by whatever means we can make use of. Study often means study of the thoughts and thinking patterns of others. Wit and wisdom often rides on top of that again - it depends.If you must ask, try at least to do it nobly and with boldness. [Johann Kaspar Lavater] People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. [Oliver Goldsmith] All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. [Percy Bysshe Shelley] Let not reductive theories, but your own creative individuality come first.
"It is more important for the patient [partner, etc.] to understand than
for the analyst's theoretical expectations to be satisfied." [Carl G. Jung]
Sage Words
GOOD SAYINGS can contain wit and wisdom, and they can make you
able.
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