Poverty is the worst form of violence. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. (Quote by - Benny Hill)

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)

One learns to itch where one can scratch. (Quote by - Ernest Bramah)

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. (Quote by - Auguste Comte)

Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces. (Quote by - Shashi Deshpande)

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Quote by - Confucius)

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. (Quote by - Louis-ferdinand Celine)

The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits. (Quote by - G. Emmons)

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. (Quote by - Piers Anthony)

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. (Quote by - Jacob Braude)

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Quote by - Walter Lippman)

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. (Quote by - Bruce Friedman)

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. (Quote by - Rona Barrett)

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -what makes you go beyond the norm. (Quote by - Cicely Tyson)

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. (Quote by - Nietzsche)

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. (Quote by - Bryan Adams)

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry. (Quote by - Muriel Rukeyser)

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life. (Quote by - Coleman Cox)

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)

You create your opportunities by asking for them. (Quote by - Patty Hansen)

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. (Quote by - William James)