Bad times have a scientific value. . . . We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunity, Wise You May Also Like Men are born equal, but they are also born different. By Erich Fromm Personality, Positive, Thoughtful, Wise Success covers many blunders. By George Bernard Shaw Comforting, Motivational, Success, Wise What works cannot be irrational. If something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success, Wise You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. By Booker T. Washington Advice, Enemies, Short, Success, Wise Carpe diem – Seize the day. By Horace Happy, Life, Opportunity, Sunday The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. By William Shakespeare Fools, Wise You May Also Like from Ralph Waldo Emerson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Funny, Trust Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense, Genius, Wise Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Persuasion Here’s to the happy man: All the world loves a lover. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. Venus favors the bold. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy, Love, Romantic We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Giving back The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Achievement, Inspirational, Motivational, Rewarding, Success
Men are born equal, but they are also born different. By Erich Fromm Personality, Positive, Thoughtful, Wise
What works cannot be irrational. If something stupid works (and makes money), it cannot be stupid. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Success, Wise
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him. By Booker T. Washington Advice, Enemies, Short, Success, Wise
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. By William Shakespeare Fools, Wise
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Funny, Trust
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Common sense, Genius, Wise
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Persuasion
Here’s to the happy man: All the world loves a lover. To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. Venus favors the bold. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy, Love, Romantic
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Giving back
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Achievement, Inspirational, Motivational, Rewarding, Success