“A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 60 of 303
“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”
“Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.”
“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.”
“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
“There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.”
“By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.”
“It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.”
“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”
“Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.”
“The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.”
“Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.”
“It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.”
“It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.”
“You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.”
“As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.”
“When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.”
“Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.”
“Talk in terms of the other person's interests.”