Aphorisms - IV (and end)

Here are the last of my collection, for now:

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, but quite another to put him in possession of truth. - John Locke

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. - Mark Twain

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. - the Talmud

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst. - Acton

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams

The primary danger of the TV screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents - the talks, the games, the family activities, and the arguments through which much of the child's learning takes place and his character is formed. - Urie Bronfenbrenner

You don't always have to solve problems; sometimes technology enables you to bypass a problem. - E. E.David, Jr. , scientific advisor to Presidents Nixon and Johnson

Canned thinking, like canned meat, is not dangerous, providing that fresh thinking has preceded it.

The paradox of time - few people have enough, yet everyone has all there is.

Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something that you ought to face. - Frank Medlicott

The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper. - Nietzsche

We must interpret a bad temper as the sign of an inferiority complex. - Alfred Adler

He who learns but does not think is lost;
he who thinks but does not learn is in danger.
- Confucius

On losing one's temper - It's like a sharp nail that tears the threads of something durable and lovely. We may use every bit of patience and skill in mending it, but we cannot make it like new again. The darned place will always be conspicuous. - Margaret E. Sangster

There is time for everything. - Thomas A. Edison

Those who do the least always seem to have the least time. - Arnold Glascow

No hour is to be considered a waste which teaches one what not do to. - Charles B. Rogers

Tradition means handing on all that is valuable to the next generation.

The obscure we see eventually; the completely apparent takes longer.

Work is a great blessing; after evil came into the world, work was given as an antidote, not as a punishment. - Arthur S. Hardy

Nothing would be done at all if a person waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. - John Henry Newman

Wisdom is special knowledge in excess of all that is known. - Ambrose Bierce

The wise avoid evil by anticipating it. - Publilius Syrus

Work fascinates me; I could sit and watch it all day. - Mark Twain

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. - Benjamin Franklin

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if only we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Wollcott

There are two things needed in these days: first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; second, for poor men to find out how rich men work. - Edward Atkinson

All I want is less to do, more time to do it, and more pay for not getting it done.

Cease from the folly of metaphysical speculation...and pursue one end alone - how you may do what your hands find to do and go your way with never a passion, always a smile. - Lucian

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Schiller

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. - William Cowper

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. - Oscar Wilde

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. - Booker T. Washington

If your luck is good, you get credit for wisdom.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness. - Whittaker Chambers

Nothing is work unless you would rather be doing something else. - James M. Barrie

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. - Miguel de Cervantes

Experience has shown that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.

It is usually better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing. - Winston Churchill

There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness. - Robert Burton

Work is dull only to those who take no pride in it. - William Feather

Concentrate on your work and the applause will take care of itself. - B.C.Forbes