Wisdom Quotes

• "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother."
  By: Hannah Nixon
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• "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
  By: Sir Isaac Newton
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• "A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody."
  By: Richard Needham
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• "Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."
  By: Napoleon I
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• "We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
  By: Desmond Morris
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• "To know one thing, you must know the opposite."
  By: Henry Moore
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• "A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "The greatist thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."
  By: Elizabeth Montagu
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• "Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two."
  By: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
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• "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but awhile he knows something."
  By: Wilson Mizner
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• "Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there."
  By: Andrew Mercer
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