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Proverbs and Quotes

The best people are those most beneficial to [other] people.
Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w)
Half knowledge is worse than ignorance.
Thomas B. Macaulay
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Albert Einstein
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Nancy D. Solomon
You can tell how smart people are by the things they laugh at.
Tina Fey
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift… that's why they call it the present.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
Albert Einstein
Ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge
Charles Darwin
There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.
Morgan Housel
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
Joanne Rowling
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
Socrates
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
William James
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.
Yuval Noah Harari
Education makes a good man better and the bad one worse.
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