By Abu Bakr
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The people who fight fire with fire, usually end up with ashes.
The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.
The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
A man can learn wisdom even from a foe.
That man is sharp who can say what he wants in a minimum of words.
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.
Do not take a blind guide.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this – never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.
