Wisdom Sayings

559 sayings found from 559 authors

The most important thing for us to know about the future is that it will be radically different from the past.

— Yuval Noah Harari 2016
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Take care that none of them escapes.

— Charlemagne c. 880-887 (recorded)
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Apprehended slaves trying to run back to barbarian lands should either have their feet cut off or be sent into the mine.

— Constantine the Great c. 313-321 CE
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It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

— Peter the Great Unknown, 17th-18th century
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A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
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Joseph, let us go away. They are throwing us out of here. Where shall we go?

— Simon Bolivar December 17, 1830
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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1915
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Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.

— Akbar the Great 16th century (approx. 1556-1605)
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Little Bird if you do not sing for me, I will wait for you.

— Tokugawa Ieyasu 17th century (approx. 1603-1616)
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How depressing it has been, Even within the palace.

— Meiji Emperor Late 19th - early 20th century
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.

— Leon Trotsky 1935
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

— Fidel Castro 1985
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.

— Che Guevara Unknown
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You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.

— Ho Chi Minh Unknown, likely during the Indochina Wars
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There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

— Jawaharlal Nehru Unknown
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All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
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We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

— Pol Pot c. 1975
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I am the father of Uganda, and a father must be strict.

— Idi Amin c. 1971-1979
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It's in God's hands.

— Saddam Hussein 2004
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You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.

— Francisco Franco Unknown
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