“All great men are play actors of their own ideal.”
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Wise Quotes — page 112 of 916
“Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.”
“God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.”
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
“Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.”
“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.”
“Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.”
“When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!”
“Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.”
“A man must become wise at his own expense.”
“I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”
“The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.”
“We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.”
“The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.”
“Any organisation develops people; it either forms them or deforms them.”
“During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.”
“One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.”
“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”
“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.”
“It is better to will the good than to know the truth.”