What to believe

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

Edgar Allan Poe

Injustice

To counteract one injustice with another injustice does not eliminate it, it simply duplicates it!

Anonymous

Not knowing

Awareness of "not knowing" is merit-worthy, but to brag about not knowing is foolish!

Attributed to Socrates

Chaff

With time and with chaff
ripen sorb fruit and riffraff.
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Anonymous

(The sorb fruit only matures after it's been picked.
  The misdeeds of rogues may only come to light long afterwards.)

I do not aspire

I do not aspire to find a place in this society, but to find a society in which it is worthwhile to find a place!

Mauro Rostagno

 

Bait the hook . . .

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom

"I fear the Greeks, even those bearing gifts" 

Laoocon (Virgil's Aeneid)

The last taste . . .

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last,

Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

William Shakespeare, 'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

Ask not . . .

Ask not what your country can do for you;

- ask what you can do for your country.

   - JFK (1961)