Quotes, Maxims, Witticisms, Anecdotes, and Aphorisms For a Healthy Wisdom

Friday, July 25, 2008

Oligarchy or Democracy?

"You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy, but you cannot have both."

~ Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Finding Picasso

"I do not seek. I find."

~ Pablo Picasso

True Teaching

“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.”

~Amos Bronson Alcott

Sincere Ignorance and Conscientious Stupidity

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kissing Moral Horses

“In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.”

~ Gary Cooper

Never Surrender

“I never surrendered, because the more you struggle, the more possibilities you have of winning and receiving help. It has always been in the last minutes, when everything seemed lost thast someone came to help me go beyond my limits.”

~ Silver Kane, Dispara, Dispara, Dispara

Apply and Do

"Knowing is not enough, one must apply. Willing is not enough, one must do."

~ Bruce Lee