Quotable Quotes Part II

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“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” - Spencer Johnson

 

[manoharkumar]

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” - Anon

 

[ozone]

“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

 

[ozone]

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.” Joseph Joubert

“Talk sense to a fool and he brands you foolish.”
― Euripides, Bacchae

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck

 

[C RAVI]

You are not responsible for what people think about you.
But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.

- STANLEY FERRARD

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”- Confucius

No wonder since a nation is a collection of thousands of homes.
Take care of the micro and the macro is automatically taken care of.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. - Junius

Integrity is in the person himself

while profession is in his position.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” - Spencer Johnson

No wonder personal integrity forms the foundation of honesty.

He who is not true to himself can not be true to others! Right???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.” - Anon

A happily married man is one whose behaves in the same way,
whether or not his wife is around!

A man with personal integrity is one who behaves in the same way,
whether or not he has witnesses!!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

Proves beyond doubt that malice and incompetence go hand and hand!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.” Joseph Joubert

“Talk sense to a fool and he brands you foolish.”
― Euripides, Bacchae

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck

1. "I" is above everything else - even truth!

2. Argue with a fool and he will drag you down to his level
and defeat you easily with his long experience!

3. The same rule applies to the drunkards.
Drunkenness gives them the freedom to do
several things which soberness denies.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

You are not responsible for what people think about you.
But you are responsible for what you give them to think about you.

- STANLEY FERRARD

Doesn't what they think about depend on
what we give them to think about???

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Poverty

Poverty is no disgrace to a man,
but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Rev.Sidney Smith

The greatest of evils and
the worst of crimes is poverty.
G.B.Shaw.

 

[vgane]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

 

[vgane]

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

 

[vgane]

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

 

[vgane]

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we would expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. ”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

 

[vgane]

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

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[vgane]

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

The mighty dinosaurs vanished because they were too mighty
and they would not adapt to the changes in the environment.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

To know the real value of one minute or even one second,
all one has just to do is to stand and wait
in front of an occupied toilet room.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

Coming from his mouth,
"I will not ape blindly the lead of other men"
would have sounded so much better.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we would expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. ”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

Hindu philosophy states the same thing in a nutshell.
The entire creation is just a play / a game / a time-pass
for the Supreme power manifesting as the creation.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

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The number of people who approach a problem with
an open mouth and closed mind has always exceeded
the number of people who approach it with
an open mind and a closed mouth!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.”

― Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)

Despite all his discoveries Darwin seems to had missed
two of the finest pleasures a human being can enjoy!