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(11.07.2003 - 2:50 p.m.)

Wise-O-Matic (tm)

Simply this: a place where you can submit examples of wise words of wisdom for other people to peruse. Be the words whimsical, deep and meaningful or just plain ridiculous, submit them to the Wise-O-Matic and they are sure to be passed on.

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Be sure to include your Diaryland username, who said them and, if you have any details, in what context.

Read These Words Of The Wise

Submitted by: Regz (with thanks to Steve)
Said by: James Madison (Fourth President of the United States)
Who said: "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both."

Submitted by: Regz
Said by: Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659 - 1719), in Hagakure: The Book Of The Samurai
Who said: "A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner. This person is genteel."

Submitted by: Regz
Said by: Thornton Wilder, in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Bridge Of San Luis Rey
Who said: "Some say that we shall never know, and to the Gods we are like the flies that boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God."

Submitted by: Regz
Said by: John Steinbeck, in his novel The Grapes of Wrath
Who said: "There was a listlessness in him toward things people wanted and needed. He lived in a strange silent house and looked out of it through calm eyes. He was a stranger to all the world."

Submitted by: Regz (with thanks to Revoless)
Said by: Yukio Mishima, in Confessions of a Mask
Who said: "When a boy of fourteen or fifteen discovers that he is more given to introspection and consciousness of self than other boys his age, he easily falls into the error of believing it is because he is more mature than they. This was certainly a mistake in my case. Rather it was because the other boys had no such need of understanding themselves as I had: they could be their natural selves, whereas I was to play a part, a fact that would require considerable understanding and study. So it was not my maturity but my sense of uneasiness, my uncertainty, that was forcing me to gain control over my consciousness."

Submitted by: Regz (with thanks to Halcyonwind)
Said by: Anon
Who said: "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

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