Benjamin Franklin

I develop the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any other that give the air of positiveness to an opinion, but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so: It appear to me or should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so, or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit I believe has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to inculcate my opinion and persuade men into measures that I have been, time to time, engaged in promoting.

Habit | Men | Opinion | Time | Wisdom | Words | Think |

Benjamin Franklin

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Money | Wisdom |

Benjamin R. Haydon

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainly of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Men | Right | Wisdom | Wrong |

Russell Green

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Despise | Education | Wealth |

Samuel Goldwyn

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Ability | Luck | Man | Opportunity | Sense | Smile | Luck | Think |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

We pierce doors and windows to make a house; and it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends. Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

Nothing | Usefulness |

Orrin E. Klapp, fully Orrin Edgar Klapp

The celebrity cult celebrates the triumph of ordinariness – charm without character, showmanship without ability, bodies without minds, information without wisdom.

Ability | Character | Cult | Wisdom |

Mao Tse-tung, alternatively Zedong, Ze dong, aka Chairman Mao

Maneuvering for petty advantage is short-sighted.

Frank Edward Peretti

The measure of a man is not his strength; it is the depth of his nobility. The measure of any person is how he or she treats those who are less gifted, less intelligent, and less able. The measure of a Christian is how willing he or she is to reach down and help those who are less fortunate -- to take the strength and advantage they have to help those who have not.

Man | Nobility | Strength |

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Reason provides a means of escaping from the constraints of belief-systems backed by authority and from the resentment which clever people feel at the power of their own passions. Because reason--in admittedly varying degrees--is available to everybody, it has a potential advantage over the truth you feel and the truth you are told.

Authority | Belief | Means | People | Power | Reason | Resentment | Truth |

Aeschylus NULL

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Fear | Good | Heart | Pain | Wisdom |