Wit & Wisdom

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

Marie Curie, quoted in The Times of India

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

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Journalist Sydney J. Harris, quoted in the Brantford, Ontario, Expositor

“To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.”

George Washington, quoted in The Motley Fool

“Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”

François de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in the London Guardian

“When you’re certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.”

Edward Teller, quoted in The New York Times

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

Benjamin Disraeli, quoted in the Lowell, Mass., Sun

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.”

Charlie Chaplin, quoted in the Karachi, Pakistan, Dawn