wisdom Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Always desire to learn something useful.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon, deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.

The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still favorable. Favorable conditions never come.

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.

Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; To teach and never be weary is love.

We learn to love that to which we give our time.

What seems to grow fairer to me as life goes by is the love and the grace and tenderness of it; not its wit and cleverness and grandeur of knowledge, grand as knowledge is, but just the laughter of children, and the friendship of friends, and the cozy talk by the fire, and sight of flowers, and the sound of music.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

L'amour vient de l'aveuglement , l'amitie de la connaissance . (Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.)

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

Learn to love good books. There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood. Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton , and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that's where you will find success.

For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.

Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.

He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness. HAPPINESS comes from sharing one's self and one's blessings. All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

. . . power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Learn to obey before you command.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

We are what we think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.

In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits; for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

I realized that far beyond the possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive or imagine in its loftiest flights.

Man's flight through life is sustained by the power of his knowledge.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge.

Knowledge become power only when we put it into use.

Knowledge is boundless but the capacity of one man is limited.

Knowledge is not what you can remember, but what you cannot forget.

Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all.

Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.

We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it.

If . . . happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books. . . . They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Can anything be beyond the knowledge of a man like you?

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth? He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this, that he knew nothing yet.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it, this is a hard lesson.

In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge.

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? - Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Knowledge is an antidote to fear.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Knowledge begets knowledge. The more I see, the more impressed I am not with what we know but with how tremendous the areas are as yet unexplored.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge, it is the end.

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Head knowledge is good, but heart knowledge is indispensable. The training of the hands and feet must be added to make a rounded education. We must all learn these days to become spiritual pioneers if we would save the world from chaos.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness that darkness flung me Is worthless as ignorance : nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge, broad deep knowledge, is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise : so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Learn what you are and be such.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own knowledge that you can deal. It is only your own knowledge that you can claim to possess or ask others to consider. Your mind is your only judge of truth and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal. Nothing but a man's mind can perform that complex, delicate, crucial process of identification which is thinking. Nothing can direct the process but his own judgment. Nothing can direct his judgment but his moral integrity.

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control , These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.

The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment is your choice made. Thus you learn to take the path to the right. Thus you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.

We do not need more national development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfill. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union , we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.

. . . success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely, they will make or break you.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson is life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Learning is not compulsory. . . neither is survival.

. Berkshire's annual reports and letters to shareholders, prepared by Buffett, frequently receive coverage by the financial media. Buffett's writings are known for containing quotations from sources as ranging between the Bible and Mae West, as well as advice in a Midwestern folk style, and numerous jokes. What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Abhi SharmaPage 188 Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. Never invest in a business you can't understand.I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. Without passion, you don't have energy. Without energy, you have nothing. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently. You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people. It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. Abhi SharmaPage 189 Wall Street is the only place that people drive to in a Rolls Royce to take advice from people who ride the subway. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable.The sequence is not predictable. When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact. I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out. In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Abhi SharmaPage 190 Will Rogers Never miss a good chance to shut up. Will Rogers was first an Indian, a cowboy and a national figure. Born in 1879 on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what later would become Oologah, Oklahoma, Will Rogers was taught by a freed slave how to use a lasso as a tool to work Texas Longhorn cattle on the family ranch. As he grew older, Will Rogers' roping skills developed so special that he was listed in the Guinness Book of Records for throwing three lassos at once: One rope caught the running horse's neck, the other would hoop around the rider and the third swooped up under the horse to loop all four legs. Will Rogers' unsurpassed lariat feats were recorded in the classic movie,

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

All warfare is based on deception.

Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

Move swift as the Wind, Camouflaged as the Forest, Attack Fire as the Mountain, Unmovable as the Mountain.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.