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Jai Ganesh

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Beware Quotes

Beware Quotes

1. Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. - George Bernard Shaw

2. Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

3. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

4. Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. - Benjamin Franklin

5. Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. - Jean de La Fontaine

6. Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth

7. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. - Warren Buffett

8. Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. - Demosthenes

9. Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. - Benjamin Disraeli

10. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. - Francis Bacon

11. Beware the hobby that eats. - Benjamin Franklin

12. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. - Francis Bacon

13. Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

14. The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. - Fred Hoyle.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.