He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
........................the best way to get something done is to begin.
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and ;him who receives, and thus, like mercy, it is twice blessed.
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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