“I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 11 of 303
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
“Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.”
“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.”
“The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.”
“Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.”
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
“It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.”
“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”
“The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -”
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.”
“I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop”
“But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.”
“Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!”
“I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.”