"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

Rodin, Auguste on Experience
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"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."

Wilde, Oscar on Contradiction
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"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

Blake, William on Fools and Foolishness
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"A truth spoken before its time is dangerous."

Proverb, Greek on Truth
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"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Fools and Foolishness
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"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."

Stephens, James on Fear
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"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

Cato The Elder on Wisdom
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"No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy."

Hitopadesa on Enemies
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"Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand."

Summers, David on Courage
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"Woman absent is woman dead."

Bierce, Ambrose on Absence
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Silence
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"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise."

Bible on Wisdom
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"Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise."

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von on Men and Women
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Quotations
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on Fools and Foolishness
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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on Wisdom
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"To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman."

Mill, John Stuart on Understanding
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette on Sacrifice
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"Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on Logic
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"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave."

Gabirol, Ibn on Secrets
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Secrets
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"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."

Shaw, George Bernard on Secrets
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"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."

Smith, Alexander on Secrets
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"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Sanity
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"Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."

Santayana, George on Sanity
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"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Secrets
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"Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror."

Euripides on Logic
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"Reason also is choice."

Milton, John on Logic
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"Logic is the anatomy of thought."

Locke, John on Logic
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."

Joubert, Joseph on Logic
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"The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner."

Oxenstierna, Count Axel Gustafsson on Libraries
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"There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out."

Masson, Thomas L. on Libraries
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"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that."

Adams, J. Donald on Libraries
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"I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander."

Smith, Alexander on Libraries
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"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

Cowper, William on Absence
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"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history."

Rowan, Carl on Libraries
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"Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on Libraries
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"The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it."

Devoto, Bernard on Logic
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"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation."

Hugo, Victor on Absence
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"Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis."

Dewey, John on Logic
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