A Quote by Ivan Panin
Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
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A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.
A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
I think the least of people's worries is a man In a dress.
I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.
But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.
The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
Say what you want about George W. Bush, but the guy is a man's man. He means what he says, and he says what he means. Whether you agree with the Texan or not, at least one always knows where they stand with him.
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