“You should not honor men more than truth.”
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Wise Quotes — page 107 of 916
“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.”
“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.”
“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”
“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
“Say what you think; think what you mean.”
“Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
“Education is not received. It is achieved.”
“To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.”
“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.”
“What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.”
“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”
“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.”
“It bodes very ill for government when men are exalted to places of high trust through their own solicitations. He only fills a place with dignity who is invited to it by his fellow citizens from the experience they have had of his adequate abilities.”
“After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.”
“Teach by works more than words.”
“To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.”