The Smartest Things Ever Said, New and ExpandedRowman & Littlefield, 3. 4. 2017 - Počet stran: 392 The Smartest Things Ever Said is a compendium of human wisdom culled from the world’s most celebrated—and sometimes anonymous—minds. From Confucius and Shakespeare to Maya Angelou and Woody Allen, and from Winston Churchill and Thomas Edison to Jeff Bezos and Jane Fonda, it is quite simply the best collection of the smartest quotes ever. |
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... there is no time limit to wise utterances is reassuring in these troubled times. A category of quotations to which I'm particularly drawn is proverbs. Their very nature implies a lack of originality, but to view them as timeworn clichés ...
... there is no time limit to wise utterances is reassuring in these troubled times. A category of quotations to which I'm particularly drawn is proverbs. Their very nature implies a lack of originality, but to view them as timeworn clichés ...
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... there is no monopoly on wisdom. Which entry in the entire book qualifies as the smartest? Although wisdom is seldom a competition sport, that's a question I've been asked, and more than once, and I continue to hark back to the memory of ...
... there is no monopoly on wisdom. Which entry in the entire book qualifies as the smartest? Although wisdom is seldom a competition sport, that's a question I've been asked, and more than once, and I continue to hark back to the memory of ...
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... There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — GEORGE SANTAYANA. •. The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it. — AESCHYLUS. •. One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he ...
... There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — GEORGE SANTAYANA. •. The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it. — AESCHYLUS. •. One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he ...
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... there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — CARL JUNG. •. Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man ...
... there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — CARL JUNG. •. Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man ...
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... there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. — IVY BAKER PRIEST. •. A birthday is a good time to begin anew ...
... there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect. — IVY BAKER PRIEST. •. A birthday is a good time to begin anew ...
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II Love and Friendship | |
III Success and Ways to Achieve It | |
IV The Life of the Mind | |
V Politics and Politicians Government and Statesmen | |
VI Proverbial Wisdom | |
SELECTED QUOTED SOURCES | |
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AESOP AFRICAN PROVERB ain’t ALBERT EINSTEIN American author American novelist American poet American writer ANONYMOUS ARISTOTLE artist BC–c beauty believe BENJAMIN FRANKLIN better British novelist BUDDHA CHINESE PROVERB death dramatist dreams ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELIOT English novelist ENGLISH PROVERB essayist everything fear fool freedom FRENCH PROVERB French writer friendship G. K. CHESTERTON GEORGE BERNARD SHAW GEORGE SANTAYANA give greatest Greek grow H. L. MENCKEN happy heart HENRY DAVID THOREAU horse human IRISH PROVERB ISAAC ITALIAN PROVERB JAMES JOHANN WOLFGANG JOSEPH journalist KAHLIL GIBRAN keep leader liberty live LORD Louis C.K. man’s mind never one’s person political RALPH WALDO EMERSON ROBERT FROST SAMUEL SIR FRANCIS BACON SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL soul statesman success tell there’s thing THOMAS true truth U.S. president U.S. senator WALTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wisdom wise WOLFGANG VON GOETHE words YIDDISH PROVERB