Nagesh Belludi

Common sense is anything but common.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher, Author)

A person who knows little likes to talk, and one who knows much mostly keeps silent. This is because a person who knows little thinks that everything he knows is important, and wants to tell everyone. A person who knows much also knows that there is much more he doesn’t know. That’s why he speaks only when it is necessary to speak, and when he is not asked questions, he keeps his silence.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French Philosopher)

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
—Martha Stewart (American Businesswoman)

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
—Bette Midler (American Actress, Singer)

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.
—Vincent de Paul (French Catholic Saint)

Talking and eloquence are not the same.—To speak and to speak well are two things.—A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
—Ben Jonson (English Dramatist)

In a choice between bad company and loneliness, the second is preferable.
—Spanish Proverb

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
—Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Indian Politician, Diplomat)

My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down
—Louisa May Alcott (American Novelist)

Investors have very short memories.
—Roman Abramovich (Russian-Israeli Businessman)

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
—William Penn (American Entrepreneur)

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people.
—James Russell Lowell (American Poet, Critic)

Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.
—Vietnamese Proverb

Science is but an image of the truth.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
—Richard Dawkins (British Ethologist, Atheist)

Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?
—Arthur C. Clarke (English Science-fiction Writer)

When you make the right decision, it doesn’t really matter what anyone else thinks.
—Caroline Kennedy (American Attorney, Diplomat)

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.
—Woody Allen (American Film Actor, Director)

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
—Truman Capote (American Novelist)

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)

Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
—Emily Bronte (English Novelist, Poet)

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it’s better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

When a field has been carefully prepared and planted with seeds, and all favorable conditions are present, such as temperature, moisture, and warmth, the seeds will germinate and grow into crops. It is said that there is nothing, however difficult, that cannot become easy through familiarization. If you persevere in the practice of these instructions, you can be sure of achieving results.
—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhist Teacher)

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.
—Domenico Cieri (Mexican Writer)

One of the saddest lines in the world is, ‘Oh come now – be realistic.’ The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
—Richard Nelson Bolles (American Self-Help Author)

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.
—Herbert Agar (American Journalist, Historian)

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
—Robert Browning (English Poet)

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
—William Ellery Channing (American Theologian, Poet)

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
—Philip Sidney (English Soldier, Poet, Courtier)

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.
—Moses Mendelssohn (German Jewish Philosopher)

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure, and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.
—David Hume (Scottish Philosopher, Historian)

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell
—Karl Popper (Austrian-born British Philosopher)

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson (American Head of State)

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
—Thomas Fuller (English Cleric, Historian)

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.
—Russian Proverb

Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun.
—Christina Rossetti (English Poet)

Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
—Epictetus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (French Philosopher)

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
—George Orwell (English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist)

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
—Jackie Collins (English Romance Novelist)

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.
—The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Scripture)

It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
—Colette (French Novelist, Performer)

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
—W. Somerset Maugham (British Novelist)

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
—Joseph Conrad (Polish-born British Novelist)

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
—Katherine Mansfield (British Author)

I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
—Lisa Alther (American Novelist)

The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.
—Dorothee Luzy Dotinville (French Dancer, Actress)

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
—Buddhist Teaching

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (American Head of State)

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
—Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian Novelist, Children’s Writer)

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
—Maria Montessori (Italian Physician, Educator)

If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian-born British Philosopher)

Let a man take time enough for the most trival deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion, as if the short spring days were an eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

It’s a big world. You can loudly leave out 99% of it. People in that 1% will come to you because you have shown how much you value them.
—Derek Sivers (American Entrepreneur)