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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.


Jean Giraudoux

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BERNIE SANDERS We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us me...
JULIENE BERK The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.
KIPPA The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action...
FELIX ADLER There were more than a thousand of us in the area.
GHULAMULLAH AZAD The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmon...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with education but being educated makes you look like a wise person....
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turni...
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MIKE BARBER Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The reasonable among us must be heard and our voices must come out clearer than the voices of the ex...
AMR KHALED Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see...
JOHN MCCAIN Neuroscience makes us connect with each other at an emotional level. It makes us make friends. It ma...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
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NIHAD AWAD Patience is wisdom which makes us to understand the give circumstances & do away with the emotion.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations i...
GREG ANDERSON We lay our hearts on the line every week. It doesn't hurt anybody more than it hurts us.
COREY SIMON The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER People's enthusiasm for the kids and the coaches makes it easier for us to call on them. It doesn't ...
DOUG MESSER The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must b...
PIERRE CARDIN It's pathos. Pathos makes us feel sympathy, horror. It appeals to our emotions. It can make us cry, ...
JOHN IORIO It was something on one hand that you might regret, but every week is like that for us. As a coach y...
BRAD FULLER God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ...
JOHN NEWTON Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we ca...
THICH NHAT HANH I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stup...
KAMI GARCIA Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re f...
IRIS MURDOCH Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see mo...
SOCRATES We are more than happy to move forward but ... not our call.
TONY AGNONE Our father constantly stressed how vital a quality education was for us to realize and accomplish ou...
MIKE SHANNON We grow old judging others
And ourselves
Until life humbles us
And makes scared child...
KAMAND KOJOURI You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stu...
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CHRIS MURRAY In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...
CHAIM POTOK The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE It makes us feel good to hand something to a patient.
DR. HOLLY HOLMES We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth ...
ROBERT E. LEE Each experience through which we pass,if taken sportingly develops wisdom & makes us to adopt correc...
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BP. THOMAS WILSON More. Our relationship with God should make us MORE Understanding with others, MORE forgiving, MORE ...
JOHN B. BEJO (Webb) blocked a shot and sent it back into the stands after play had already stopped on a personal ...
MALCOLM DEANS We stopped playing our game and we stopped getting back on defense. They outplayed us in the last ha...
EDIN SULJIC The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brute...
CICERO Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It makes it look kind of bad with them beating us by 22 points and us playing for the championship a...
MIKE LEMONS The Spirit of God makes us more righteous than the law.
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I am in favor of talking with the Palestinians, ... I think the [aerial] bombings should be stopped....
SHIMON PERES Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety make...
NOREENA HERTZ Every word that comes out of my neurons is to make humanity see that there are more things in our bi...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Our deeds travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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LARA RHAME Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.
RICK YANCEY All of us--bright atheists and committed religionists--need to wake now and hear the earth call . . ...
SCOTTY MCLENNAN A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented wi...
ANN PLATO Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick...
J.I. PACKER That's totally unrelated to the issue at hand and makes us skeptical about just how sincere they are...
KUNIO UMEDA Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.
BODHIDHARMA They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; the...
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BRAD BLEW Yes,” Bernarde quipped, “Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us ...
KATERINA MARTINEZ Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
EDMUND WALLER God has not only given us strength and wisdom, but also the thought of perseverance and determinatio...
JEFFREY LEONARD Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS) Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are
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M. RUSSELL BALLARD The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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FRANK CRANE We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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RYAN LILLY Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.
VIKRANT PARSAI The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...
CARL SAGAN With text messaging and e-mails buzzing in our pockets, our constant availability for phone calls, a...
DEAN GRAZIOSI Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
SISTER CORITA KENT Our 1-3-1 defense has won a lot of games for us, so we just keep reminding ourselves of that every t...
FRANK YOUNG The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to impro...
BILL BEATTIE An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Nothing is irreparable in politics.
JEAN ANOUILH If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corn...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're cau...
JEAN ANOUILH Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny t...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...
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