I love sayings. In fact, I believe an aphoristic education can supplant almost everything we've been force-fed in public school. Just as the Chinese had to study the Analects of Kung Fu Tze (Confucius), I believe it would serve us well to study the maxims and aphoristic thoughts of the various thinkers. So, without further ado, here's some sayings I think are of value:
The man who works with his hands is a laborer. The man who works with his hands and head is a craftsman. The man who works with his hands, head and heart is an artist.
- St. Francis of Assisi.
A man whose purpose for teaching is money isn't worthy of that money.
- Helio Gracie
Jiujitsu is the art of making the most efficient use of mental and physical energy.
- Jigoro Kano
Cry in training, laugh in battle.
- Samurai Maxim
If you wish to avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard
Inferior minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
- La Rochefoucauld
The dog barks, but still the caravan moves on.
- Arab Saying
As long as I'm acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. They will do me more good than harm.
- Winston Churchill
All my life I've known better than to depend on the experts.
- John F. Kennedy
We learn by teaching.
- James Howell
It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
- Oscar Wilde
Take them for what they're worth. Maybe they're worthless. I don't know.
