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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)
Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. (Quote by - Sicilian Proverb)
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)