There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible., Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, (1742 1799)
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart., Nelson Mandela, S. African black civil rights leader (1918 )
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield., Warren Buffett, US financier investment businessman (1930 )
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic., Frank Herbert, Dune, US science fiction novelist (1920 1986)
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?, Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11, Chinese philosopher reformer (551 BC 479 BC)
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards., Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, poet (1854 1900)