Truisms

Life is a learning process. We will learn until our last breath, and not have learned all, or enough. However, if we are attentive to the words and experiences of the people who have gone on before us, or who had been through life’s hard knocks at some point, we might be able to avoid some heartbreaks.

Enjoy the following selection of truisms.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. - Abraham Maslow

You are never so easily fooled as when you are trying to fool someone else. - François de la Rochefoucauld

If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. - Rudyard Kipling

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. - Johann Von Goethe

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. - Unknown

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. - Norman Vincent Peale

If you don’t say anything, you won’t be called on to repeat it. - Calvin Coolidge

Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another? - Frances Marion

If you fight for a place in someone’s life, you will never be comfortable there. - Marinela Reka

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. - Aristotle

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Ann Landers

Some people do first, think afterward, and then repent forever. - Thomas Secker

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