“That is the way of life,” he said. “You give up your pleasures one by one
until there is nothing left, then you know it is time to go.”
(Naguib Mahfouz)
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"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and
mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the
other, and we need them all."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Accept the differences in people.
Proverbs are not universal truths. Indeed, they often contradict each another.
What, exactly, is a proverb? A concise statement of an apparent truth, which has had, has, or will have currency.
"He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
- Richard Henry Dann
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting
of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do, I understand.
- Confucius
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path. (Buddha)
Fear less, hope more.
Eat less, chew more.
Whine less, breathe more.
Talk less, say more.
Love more, and all good things will be yours.
(Swedish proverb)
What we are today comes from our
thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts
build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
(Buddha)
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. (Buddha)
To love what you do and feel that
it matters,
how could anything be more fun? (Katharine Graham)
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. (Buddha)
You can tell whether a man is
clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his
questions.
(Naguib Mahfouz)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness
To an opponent, tolerance
To a friend, your heart
To your child, a good example
To your father, deference
To your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you
To yourself, respect
To all men, charity.
(Benjamin Franklin)
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``Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners,
contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders, and they love to
chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants. They no
longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teacher.''
----Written by Socrates in 400 BC.
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“That is the way of life,” he said. “You give up your pleasures one by one
until there is nothing left, then you know it is time to go.”
(Naguib Mahfouz)
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When Elizabeth Bruce Hartwick was asked about her feelings about getting older
(when she was 68; she died at age 91), she said: "Its only value is that
it spares you the opposite, not growing older,” she said, adding: “Oh, the dear
grave. I like what Gottfried Benn wrote, something like, ‘May I die in the
spring when the ground is soft and easy to plough.”
--She was a critic, essayist, fiction
writer and a co-founder of The New York Review of Books
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Art Buchwald, Washington's court jester
"My craft is more sketching than writing; my column is almost a cartoon in words." What did he think he accomplished? "I think people feel better reading one of my columns than they do reading about nuclear waste in Tennessee."
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Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring, published in 1962):
"It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. The rains have become an instrument to bring down from the atmosphere the deadly products of atomic explosions. Water, which is probably our most important natural resource, is now used and re-used with incredible recklessness.
Now, I truly believe, that we in this generation, must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."
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