Wisdom Sayings

231 sayings found from the Modern era from 231 authors

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

— Albert Einstein Approximate
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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

— Charles Darwin Approximate
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No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.

— Alan Turing 1952
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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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Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1915
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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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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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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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That interview must have done much good. The English people do not know how badly China is governed.

— Sun Yat-sen December 1, 1896
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The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

— Julius Nyerere Unknown
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A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

— Patrice Lumumba Unknown
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

— John D. Rockefeller unknown
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I owe the public nothing.

— J.P. Morgan 1912
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I have been driven to the wall by these men, and I mean to have my revenge.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt 1868
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