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Wise Quotes — page 100 of 916
“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
“Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.”
“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
“I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.”
“[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.”
“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”
“A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.”
“Don't confuse honours with achievement.”
“People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.”
“The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.”
“A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.”
“the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.”
“On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”