"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

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"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

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"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

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"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."

"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

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"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."