Proverbials!

Sayings about Nation Sometimes the whole nation has to pay for the foolish deed of one man. ~ German Proverbs Few laws, good nations . ~ German Proverb Happy nations have no history. ~ Belgian Proverbs A nation's treasure is its scholars. ~ Yiddish Proverb Easier to rule a nation than a son. ~ Chinese Proverbs The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny. ~ South African Proverbs If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation . If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. ~ Chinese Proverb The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people. ~ Ghanaian Proverb All people are a single nation . ~ Quran proverb Quotations about Nations A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. ~ William Ralph Inge...

Quotations about Empires All  empires  come to an end, and the American one is no exception. ~ Robert Kiyosaki The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ~ William Blake All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. ~ Aristotle Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. ~ Marcus Aurelius Extended empire , like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor. ~ Samuel Johnson We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. ~ Sir John Robert Seeley The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. ~ Joseph Chamberlain Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca Makers of empi...

  Quotations about Research If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research , would it? ~ Albert Einstein Enough research will tend to support your conclusions. ~ Arthur Bloch If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. ~ Sir Peter Medawar After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. ~ Helene Deutsch To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ~ Zora Neale Hurston Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. ~ Brian Moore Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Lost in a gloom of uninspired research . ~ William Wordsworth Research is the process of going up alleys to...

Quotations about Magic Imagination is the true magic carpet. ~ Norman Vincent Peale It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician --but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. ~ Dean Koontz Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. ~ Peggy Noonan The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.~ Henning Nelms Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. ~ Peter S. Beagle Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic . ~ Arthur...

Sayings about Knowing He, who does not know one thing knows another. ~ Kenyan Proverb He, who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is. ~ German Proverb You know , you teach. You do not know, you learn. ~ Lao Proverb It is the wife who knows her husband. ~ Ghanaian Proverb Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~ Saying He, who knows not when he has enough, is poor. ~ Japanese Proverb He, who knows little quickly tells it. ~ Italian Proverb Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know ". ~ Hebrew Proverb He, who knows nothing, doubts nothing. ~ Brazilian Proverb Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. ~ Turkish Proverb What I do not know will not keep me warm. ~ Austrian Proverb You don't have to know much to read, but you do to cook. ~ Turkish Proverb A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is reall...

Quotations about Knowledge A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. ~ Bernard Beckett Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ~ Francis Bacon The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ~ Confucius Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ~ George Santayana Knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success. ~ Darius Ogden Mills Knowledge is twofold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of what is false. ~ Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ~ George Santayana The function of knowledge is to transcend earthly experience, not to wallow in it....

Sayings about Knowledge God sells knowledge for labor — honor for risk. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb Doubt is the key to knowledge . ~ Arabian Proverb Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. ~ Guinean Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. ~ Japanese Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. ~ Japanese Proverb The wise man who does not put his knowledg e into practice is like a bee that gives no honey. ~ Iranian Proverb Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone. ~ Arabian Proverb The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation. ~ Latin Proverb Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself. ~ Hebrew Proverb There are three "too much" and three "too little" that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge ; and too much boasting...

Sayings about Discovery The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find. ~ Iranian Proverb Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. ~ Russian Proverb Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in. ~ Malagasy Proverb No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground. ~ Danish Proverb Discover a well before you are thirsty. ~ Chinese Proverb A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke. ~ Spanish Proverb An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation does. ~ Portuguese Proverb Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor. ~ Chinese Proverb God is always where we don't look for him. ~ Russian Proverb The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to put it in. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Discovery Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found. ~ Max Werthei...

Quotations about Curiosity A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity . ~ Yiddish Proverb The future belongs to the curious . The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out. ~ Saying Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ~ Samuel Johnson There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~ James Stephens The cure for boredom is curiosity . There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. ~ James Harvey Robinson The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity . ~ Edmund Burke Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born wit...