“Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.”
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“I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.”
“I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.”
“Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.”
“You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to...”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“Honesty's the best policy.”
Confucius
19 quotes“If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
Sir Winston Churchill
14 quotes“...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.”
George Washington
14 quotes“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”