My wisdom collection! Does anyone here have any good quotes I could add to it?
Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver.
Principiis obsta - resist the beginnings
Finem respice - consider the end
cuм negante principia nequit disputar
"It is impossible to discuss with anyone who denies principles"
Saint Thomas Aquinas said once and for all: "Let the knowledgeable man teach. Let the holy man pray. Let the prudent man rule."
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
I fear the Greeks even when they are bearing gifts.
Verbum sat sapienti
A word to the wise is sufficient
Nil disputandum de gustibus
No disputing about tastes
Quod Sum Eris
What I am, you will be (on a gravestone!)
Ex nihilo nihil fit
Nothing comes from nothing (Scholastic Axiom)
Ab inimice disce
Learn from your enemy
Bonum est ex integra causa, malum ex quocuмque defectu
A good thing must be completely so, evil if it has any defect.
The European Germanics say: It's always easy to find a stick if you want to beat up a dog.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." --H.L. Mencken
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts." --Paul Ehrlich
The American inventor Thomas Edison described this colossal scam, which the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr is designed to perpetuate, as follows:
"It is absurd to say our country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the people."
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. -Euripedes