Knowledge is power.
what is knowledge anyway...?
About Me
- Helena
- This is my public personal space. You will probably find very random links and thoughts around here. Say, it's a playground, an alter ego I like to have lying around somewhere.
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Quotations
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it
- A strong opinion only proves its strength and nothing about the truth in it
- A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. success and failure are for him answers above all.
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
- Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
- Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Follow the river and you will find the sea
- I can resist anything but temptation
- I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
- I used to believe in forever, but forever was too good to be true.
- It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. people are either charming or tedious.
- It is had enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- My head would admit defeat with honour, my heart will fight to the bitter end
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
- Simplicity is the form of real greatness
- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional
- The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
- The happiest person is he who thinks the most interesting thoughts
- The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up
- There are two things to aim at in life: First, to get what you want; And, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Thought's the slave of life and life's time's fool, and time that makes survey of all the world, must have a stop.
- We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it
- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth
- You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.