"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."

Paterno, Joe on losers and losing   

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."

Williams, Tennessee on sensitivity
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"How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought..."

Plath, Sylvia on sensitivity
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"One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude."

Orwell, George on sensitivity
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"It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction."

Auden, W. H. on sensitivity
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"He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan."

Lincoln, Abraham on crime and criminals
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"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."

Michelet, Jules on poverty and the poor   

"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

Phillips, Wendell on praise
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say."

Claudius on speakers and speaking
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"No man knows less than the man who knows it all"

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"They are so knowing, that they know nothing."

Terence on knowledge   

"They know enough who know how to learn."

Adams, Henry Brooks on education
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"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know."

Stevens, Ray on knowledge   

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

Syrus, Publilius on anger
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"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."

Proverb, Turkish on wisdom
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"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."

Ruskin, John on death
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"I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care."

Unknown, Source on caring
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust."

Chesterfield, Lord on intimacy   

"Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife."

Bundy, Al on wives   

"You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on infidelity
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on infidelity
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"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu on strategies
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"One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it."

Howard, Sidney on sacrifice
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"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."

Carrel, Alexis on greatness   

"A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it."

Unknown, Source on speakers and speaking   

"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on speakers and speaking   

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

Cowper, William on knowledge
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on speakers and speaking   

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"In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

Buddha on anger
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"Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance."

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her."

Neruda, Pablo on love
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