Nine good quotes and proverbs

1.Truth is the safest lie.-Yiddish proverb
2.Knowledge leads either to reverence or arrogance.-Anonymous
3.Knowledge is the life of the mind.-Abu Bakr
4.The palest ink is better than the best memory.-Chinese proverb
5.A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.-Marshall McLuhan
6.Do not forget birthdays.This is no way a propaganda for a larger population.-Gertrude Stein
7.It is better to try big things,even though checkered by failure,than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.-Theodore Roosevelt
8.Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and salvation.-Gertrude Stein
9.I think we should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.As long as the tenderness is there but please let some of the contempt be there,because we know what we're like,we know how we hustle and bustle and shove and push,and you sometimes use grand words to cloak it.-Dennis Potter