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In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool. – Rabbi Ben-Azai	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire. – Norman Douglas	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. – Gustave Flaubert	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. – Marie Curie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied. – Sir Walter Raleigh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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