User:Eoag/quote

Overheard, Overread, and Just Generally Plagerized
"May you live in interesting times" "May you find what you are looking for"

~two of three accient non-Chineses curses

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes. But he who does not ask remains a fool forever."


 * ~from wikiquote chinese proverbs

"Tell me, I will forget; show me, I will remember; involve me, I will understand"
 * ~paraphrased from wikiquote chinese proverbs

"Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge."


 * ~Erwin Knoll

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."


 * ~Malcolm X

"I pity the average man who, having read his morning paper, feels he knows something of what has gone on in the world"


 * ~Henry Ford (from memory but accurate in meaning and tone)