“Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.”
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Wise Quotes — page 102 of 916
“Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.”
“Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.”
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”
“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”
“The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.”
“Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.”
“He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.”
“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
“Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.”
“I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.”
“Over-diversification is a hedge for ignorance.”
“Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.”
“Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.”
“Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
“I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.”
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”