“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
Joyce Cary (1888–1957) Irish writer
Martin Svoboda
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John Rogers writer, comedian and producer from the United States
In an "Ephemera" blog post http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html<br>This also appears in Ch. 10 of The Value of Nothing (2010) by Raj Patel, who later acknowledged it was a borrowed joke in "Citation Alert!" http://rajpatel.org/2010/01/21/citation-alert/ (21 January 2010) at rajpatel.org.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Illustrated London News (3 June 1922)
“It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.”
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
"Ironic"
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
Michael E. Porter (1947) American engineer and economist
Source: What is strategy?, 1996, p. 70
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variant: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Context: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“You see, but you do not observe.”
Arthur Conan Doyle A Scandal in Bohemia
Source: A Scandal in Bohemia
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
“Through the unknown, we'll find the new.”
Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal
Source: Les Fleurs du Mal
“Never confuse movement with action.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
As quoted by Marlene Dietrich, who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Variant: Never mistake motion for action.