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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Wisdom
Experience
Reflection
Three
First
Imitation
Easiest
Bitterest
Noblest
Learn
Methods
May
Which
Second
Third
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Truth
Three
First
Through
Self-Evident
Accepted
Passes
Opposed
Being
Stages
Ridiculed
Second
Violently
Third
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love
God
Time
History
Man
World
Will
Fire
Harness
Waves
Someday
Winds
Shall
Tides
Mastering
Discovered
The History Of
After
Energies
Then
Gravity
Second
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield
Funny
Me
Crazy
You
Ugly
Too
Okay
He
Opinion
Said
Psychiatrist
Want
Second
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Success
Time
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Consist
Never
Does
Making
Same
Second
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey
Motivational
Time
You
People
Better
Try
Own
Think
Those
High
One Thing
Only
High Wire
Wire
Never
Fail
Mount
Tumble
The One Thing
Cannot
Again
Your
Moment
Who
Thing
Second
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Politics
First
Striking
Has-Been
Bears
Learned
Said
Been
Resemblance
Profession
Oldest
Second
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
Life
Be Kind
Three
First
Important
Kind
Human
Human Life
Things
Second
Third
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn
You
Yourself
Remember
First
Help Others
Older
Others
Arm
Another
Hand
End
Get
Your
Help
Helping
Helping Hand
Ever
Second
Need
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates
Technology
Business
Will
First
Automation
Rule
Magnify
Operation
Inefficiency
Inefficient
Efficiency
Efficient
Any
Used
Second
Applied
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
Dalai Lama
Life
Hope
Strength
Losing
Challenge
Thanks
Meet
Our
Way
Ways
Find
Able
Habits
Take
Buddha
Self-Destructive
React
Real
Falling
Been
Tragedy
Either
Teachings
Using
Inner
Second
Two
Inner Strength
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Good
Intelligence
Three
First
Appreciates
Other
Others
Kind
Neither
Kinds
Excellent
Through
Understand
Understands
Nor
Itself
Useless
Things
Second
Third
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
Life
You
Settle
Once
Say
Going
Happens
Second
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
War
Prosperity
Political
Inflation
First
Nation
Ruin
Temporary
Both
Economic
Permanent
Currency
Refuge
Second
Bring
Panacea
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Wisdom
Experience
Reflection
Three
First
Easiest
Bitterest
Highest
Limitation
Methods
Which
Gaining
Second
Third
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
Khalil Gibran
You
First
Country
Politician
Oasis
Parasite
Then
Asking
Your
Desert
Zealous
Second
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl
Time
You
First
Live
Living
Though
Had
Wrongly
First Time
Were
Acted
Second
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God
Woman
Mistake
Second
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
Funny
You
Girl
Sit
Nice
Relativity
Seems
Hour
Like
Red-Hot
Courting
Nice Girl
Second
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
Love
Time
You
Money
First
Marry
First Time
Companionship
Second
Third
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush
Life
Better
Path
Prison
Second Chance
Better Life
Lead
Open
America
Land
Should
Second
Chance
Gates
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
Oksana Baiul
Life
God
Me
Thank God
Gift
Better
Giving
First
Second Chance
Better Life
He
Well
Thank
Did
Second
Chance
The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
Robin Williams
Says
Bear
Arms
Amendment
Artillery
Right
Second
Second Amendment
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hurt
Party
Has-Been
He
Wronged
Healed
Because
Insult
Does
Stiff
Been
Want
Wants
Apology
Injured
Second
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
Julius Caesar
First
Rather
Had
Than
Rome
Village
Second
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Happy
Marriage
Wife
First
Own
Think
Way
Having
Only
She
Learned
Keep
Her
Things
Necessary
Second
Two
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