“True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”
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Wise Quotes — page 113 of 916
“Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.”
“My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
“I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.”
“All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.”
“I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.”
“Be in harmony, yet be different.”
“To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.”
“At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.”
“Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.”
“One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others”
“Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.”
“Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.”
“To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.”
“Forget the adage buy low and sell high.”
“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
“He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.”
“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”