Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 632 Proverbs quotesProverbs QuotesProverbs Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.~ Mohammed Ali Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.~ Dante Alighieri The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.~ Woody Allen The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.~ Angolan Proverb Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.~ Aristotle What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.~ Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.~ Aristotle The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.~ Matthew Arnold If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.~ Isaac Asimov Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.~ Berthold Auerbach The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.~ Marcus Aurelius He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.~ Marcus Aurelius There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.~ Richard Bach There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.~ Richard Bach Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.~ Francis Bacon ...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise.~ Francis Bacon Knowledge is power.~ Sir Francis Bacon One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.~ Sir Francis Bacon If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.~ Sir Francis Bacon Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print