wisdom
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
“Good fences make good neighbors.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“Lost time is never found again.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.”
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
“Prevention is better than cure.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”