“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”
Wise feeling
Wise Quotes — page 108 of 916
“Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.”
“Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge”
“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.”
“Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.”
“Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.”
“Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?”
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.”
“Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.”
“Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.”
“I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.”
“The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
“The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.”
“What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.”
“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
“Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.”
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
“'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
“Never be the brightest person in the room.”
“When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.”