My Collection of Quotations for My Beloved Students: [Rehan Aziz Shervani (LLM)] ======================================

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist.
Iuris prudentia - the wise provision of law. May law remain wise, and wisdom remain law! Jurisprudence means the decisions of courts. California Civil Code - "Maxims of Jurisprudence" - #3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts. Governments never learn. Only people learn. Every innovation occasions more harm by its novelty than benefit by its utility.

Strength Does Not Come From Winning... Your Struggles Develop Your Strength... When You Go Through Hardships... And Decide Not To Surrender... That Is Strength... "

Jokes are typically for the entertainment of friends and onlookers. The desired response is generally laughter; when this does not happen the joke is said to have "fallen flat" or "bombed"
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

WASHINGTON IRVING, The Sketch Book

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act. And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. Gilbert K. Chesterton The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law. Law is the safest helmet. (Sir Edward Coke) Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason. He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated. England is a global player Ipso facto - By that very fact. Iter arma leges silent - In war the laws are silent. Interest reipublicase ut sit finis litium - It is in the interest of the State that there be an end to litigation.

Guy Fawkes 1570 - 1606 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.

November 6, 1605

"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."

December 1621

"I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will." ... cities were instituted for three purposes. ... For conservation of laws, whereby every man enjoyeth his owne in peace; for tuition and defence of the king's subjects; and for keeping the king's peace in time of sudden uproars; and lastly, for defence of the realme against outward or inward hostility. Section 109b

Charles I 1600 - 1649

"Never make a defense or apology before you be accused."

Sir Winston Churchill, author and former U.K. Prime Minister "The price of greatness is responsibility."

People follow truth; truth makes public opinion; public opinion makes law.

Back to top> Wess Stafford, President, Compassion International "Every child you encounter is a divine appointment." Henry Ward Beecher, reverend and social activist "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems." Muhammad Yunus (Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty) Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning." David Bornstein (How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas) John W. Whitehead, Founder, Rutherford Institute "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." English proverb "The soul is healed by being with children." Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Lenin One man with a gun can control 100 without one. Vladimir Lenin Back to top> Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President "Children are our most valuable natural resource." A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vladimir_lenin.html#ixzz1O7xLAYNY Albert Einstein, physicist "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

In education, nothing works if the students don't. Donald E. Simanek (1936-) American physicist, educator, humorist. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Notebooks.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman (1939-) American activist for the rights of children. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer. A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers. Anon Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson (1895-1972) U.S. author, literary and social critic. An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself. Sydney Wood Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Anon

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert G. Ingersoll, Abraham Lincoln. The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. John Dewey (1859-1952) U.S. philosopher and educator. The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful insights." William E. ("Bill") Vaughan (19151977) American columnist and author. The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian. The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson (18761941) American novelist and short story writer. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. essayist and poet. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III - More quotations on: [Experience] [Mistakes] It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905 Consistency is the last refuge of unimaginative. (oscar wild) Electra complex Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) "One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation.'" From Civilization and Its Discontents, (1930) sigmund freaiud "Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action." From New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, (1932) Sigmund freaud I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC) Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900) When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman. Spike to Buffy Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third Marge Piercy quotes (American novelist, essayist, and poet, b.1936 )

Handwriting is autobiography. ~Carrie Latet

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa quotes Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Kahlil Gibran quotes Everyone hears only what he understands. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832) When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865) The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. Helen Rowland quotes (English-American writer, 1876-1950)

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland quotes Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. John Muir quotes

[Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.] (Voltaire)
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac quotes (French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850) Topics > N > Nature 21-30 Quotations of 293

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dal quotes (Spanish painter, 1904-1989) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes, Mistakes quotes. Add to Chapter... Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes, Truth quotes. Add to Chapter... Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin quotes (French sculptor of bronze and marble figures, 1840-1917) Similar Quotes. About: Art quotes, Nature quotes. Add to Chapter...

What is art? Nature concentrated. Honore de Balzac quotes (French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850) Similar Quotes. About: Art quotes, Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592) There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. The road to success is always under construction. Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice." Socrates Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong. Nietzsche
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ~Justinian I, Law Code, A.D. 535

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." --Alighieri Dante (12651321), Italian poet, "The Divine Comedy"
Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. ~Author Unknown Hug a police officer. It's the law! ~Author Unknown

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. Potter Stewart, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court,Time Magazine, October 20, 1958 A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. N.Y. Times 2 Oct 77
An appeal... is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. ~Finley Peter Dunne Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverb We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~Will Rogers A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. ~Lord Brougham The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ~Will Rogers
Every great example has some portion of evil, which is compensated by its public utility.

Poverty is the mother of crime. ~Marcus Aurelius Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707 It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess (Issac Newton) This most beautiful system (Universe) could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. (Issac Newton) If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has owed more to patient attention, than to any other talent. (Issac Newton) Error is not in the art but in the artificers. (Issac Newton) To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. (Issac Newton) indomitable If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Marketing is the devil. Billy Bob Thornton Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. Richard Hatch

The power of imagination makes us infinite. If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, on leaving psychotherapy [Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945 The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Choose only one master - Nature.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist The march of the human mind is slow. The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harvard University, Sept. 6, 1943 In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised. DANIEL CREVIER, AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind. JOHN LENNON, Julia

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.

[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945 People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~Wilhelm Stekel Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ~Aeschylus
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome

Lawrence Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. CHARLES BUKOWSKI, letter to Steve Richmond, Nov. 1971

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

From birth to eighteen, a girl needs good parents, from eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks, from thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality, and from fifty-five on she needs cash. SOPHIE TUCKER, Women Who Date Too Much The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored. OSCAR WILDE, The Ideal Husband

Maxims on Law:
(1) The practice of adding and annulling laws is a most dangerous one. (2) The interpretation of laws obtain the force of law. (3) Where man made laws fail; the law of nature must be used. (4) Laws are imposed not on words but on affairs. (5) Time runs against the indolent and those who are not mindful of their rights. Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. - Jessamyn West
A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act. And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. Gilbert K. Chesterton The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law. Law is the safest helmet. (Sir Edward Coke) Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of the law no one is deceived. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason. He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated. England is a global player Ipso facto - By that very fact. Iter arma leges silent - In war the laws are silent.

Interest reipublicase ut sit finis litium - It is in the interest of the State that there be an end to litigation.

Guy Fawkes 1570 - 1606 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.

November 6, 1605

"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."

December 1621

"I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will." ... cities were instituted for three purposes. ... For conservation of laws, whereby every man enjoyeth his owne in peace; for tuition and defence of the king's subjects; and for keeping the king's peace in time of sudden uproars; and lastly, for defence of the realme against outward or inward hostility. Section 109b.

Charles I 1600 - 1649

"Never make a defense or apology before you be accused."

Sir Winston Churchill, author and former U.K. Prime Minister "The price of greatness is responsibility."

People follow truth; truth makes public opinion; public opinion makes law.

Back to top> Wess Stafford, President, Compassion International "Every child you encounter is a divine appointment." Henry Ward Beecher, reverend and social activist "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems." Muhammad Yunus (Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty) Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning." David Bornstein (How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas) John W. Whitehead, Founder, Rutherford Institute "Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." English proverb "The soul is healed by being with children." Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Lenin One man with a gun can control 100 without one. Vladimir Lenin Back to top> Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President "Children are our most valuable natural resource." A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Lenin Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vladimir_lenin.html#ixzz1O7xLAYNY

Albert Einstein, physicist "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."

In education, nothing works if the students don't. Donald E. Simanek (1936-) American physicist, educator, humorist. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Notebooks. Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman (1939-) American activist for the rights of children. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist and astronomer. A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers. Anon Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson (1895-1972) U.S. author, literary and social critic. An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself. Sydney Wood Learning makes a man fit company for himself. Anon

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert G. Ingersoll, Abraham Lincoln.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education. John Dewey (1859-1952) U.S. philosopher and educator. The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful insights." William E. ("Bill") Vaughan (19151977) American columnist and author. The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer. The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Swiss cognitive psychologist. Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant (1885-1981) U.S. author and historian. The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson (18761941) American novelist and short story writer. We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) U.S. essayist and poet. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III - More quotations on: [Experience] [Mistakes] It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905 Consistency is the last refuge of unimaginative. (oscar wild) Electra complex Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) "One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation.'" From Civilization and Its Discontents, (1930) sigmund freaiud "Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action." From New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, (1932) Sigmund freaud I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC) Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900) When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

Spike to Buffy Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third Marge Piercy quotes (American novelist, essayist, and poet, b.1936 )

Handwriting is autobiography. ~Carrie Latet Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture The Castle We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa quotes Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Kahlil Gibran quotes Everyone hears only what he understands. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832) When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865) The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. Helen Rowland quotes (English-American writer, 1876-1950)

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland quotes Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. John Muir quotes

[Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.] (Voltaire)
The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.

Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Strategic Assessments
What is art? Nature concentrated. Honore de Balzac quotes (French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850) Topics > N > Nature 21-30 Quotations of 293

Nature quotes
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dal quotes (Spanish painter, 1904-1989) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes, Mistakes quotes. Add to Chapter... Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes, Truth quotes. Add to Chapter... Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin quotes (French sculptor of bronze and marble figures, 1840-1917) Similar Quotes. About: Art quotes, Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... What is art? Nature concentrated. Honore de Balzac quotes (French Novelist He developed the realistic novel describing French society in Comedie Humaine (1841). 1799-1850) Similar Quotes. About: Art quotes, Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887) Similar Quotes. About: Nature quotes. Add to Chapter... If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592) There are no stupid questions, just stupid people. The road to success is always under construction. Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die.

"Nothing is to be preferred before justice." Socrates Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong. Nietzsche
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent. ~Justinian I, Law Code, A.D. 535

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality." --Alighieri Dante (12651321), Italian poet, "The Divine Comedy"

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. ~Author Unknown Hug a police officer. It's the law! ~Author Unknown

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. Potter Stewart, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court,Time Magazine, October 20, 1958 A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. N.Y. Times 2 Oct 77
An appeal... is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. ~Finley Peter Dunne Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverb We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ~Will Rogers A lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it for himself. ~Lord Brougham The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known. ~Charles Evans Hughes When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ~Will Rogers
Every great example has some portion of evil, which is compensated by its public utility.

Poverty is the mother of crime. ~Marcus Aurelius Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ~Jonathan Swift, A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind, 1707

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system. ~Bob Enyart

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess (Issac Newton) This most beautiful system (Universe) could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. (Issac Newton) If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has owed more to patient attention, than to any other talent. (Issac Newton) Error is not in the art but in the artificers. (Issac Newton) To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. (Issac Newton) indomitable If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Marketing is the devil. Billy Bob Thornton Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. Richard Hatch

The power of imagination makes us infinite. If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, on leaving psychotherapy

[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945 The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Choose only one master - Nature. Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist The march of the human mind is slow. The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harvard University, Sept. 6, 1943 In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised. DANIEL CREVIER, AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial Intelligence When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind. JOHN LENNON, Julia

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.

[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945 People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~Wilhelm Stekel Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ~Aeschylus

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Jerome Lawrence Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. CHARLES BUKOWSKI, letter to Steve Richmond, Nov. 1971

I know little of women. But I've heard dread tales.

From birth to eighteen, a girl needs good parents, from eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks, from thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality, and from fifty-five on she needs cash. SOPHIE TUCKER, Women Who Date Too Much

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored. OSCAR WILDE, The Ideal Husband