The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
White Racism and Black Consciousness by Steve Biko
Nous sommes les seuls chez qui la réflexion n'inhibe pas l'action.
discours aux Athéniens de Périclès
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands,
but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
SunTzu
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
When I suggest that working hours should be reduced to four,
I am not meaning to imply that all the remaining time should necessarily be spent in pure frivolity.
In Praise of Idleness By Bertrand Russell
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Virtue is the root;
wealth is the result.
The Great Learning by Confucius
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than
to assume our views of science are ultimate,
that there no mysteries in nature,
that our triumphs are complete
and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
Humphry Davy
The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen,
and thinking what no one else has thought
Albert Szent-Grorgyi
Upside-down
Trees swingin' free
Buses float and buildings dangle:
Now and then it's nice to see
The world - from a different angle.
Shel Silverstein, New World
Il faut choisir : se reposer ou être libre
Thucydide
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb
Le bon ouvrier a toujour le bons outils
Gilbert Benetou
Politics have common threads wherever you go.
Travell from Stargate SG1 Season 5 episode 9 (screenplay)
Le tableau est fini quand il a effacé l'idée.
Georges Braque
On ne s'appuie que sur ce qui résiste.
André Malraux
Ceux qui ne bougent pas ne sentent pas leurs chaînes.
Rosa Luxembourg
Comfort comes first as a guest,
Then becomes your host,
And eventually your master.
It is best to keep comfort as a guest.
Anonymous
Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites mais je me battrai jusqu'à la mort pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire.
François-Marie Arouet alias Voltaire
Soyez résolus de ne servir plus, et vous serez libres.
Etienne de La Boétie extrait du Discours de la servitude volontaire
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Nietzsche
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen,
so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
L'intelligence, ça n'est pas ce que l'on sait mais ce que l'on fait quand on ne sait pas.
Jean Piaget
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, jr. in The Trumpet of Conscience
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are delightful... Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Les ordinateurs sont inutiles : ils ne donnent que les reponses.
Pablo Picasso
Believe those who are seeking the truth;
doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
Truth is the first casualty of war.
Kipling
A little note to point out Identify a Quote by Quoteland.com in order to respectfully give credit to the author and to his original idea. Quotegasm is also an excellent repository of wisdom.
You can also have a look at Surfacing wisdom, my own aphorisms.
