“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
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Wise Quotes — page 119 of 916
“It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.”
“I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.”
“Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.”
“There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.”
“Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.”
“Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution.”
“Virtue is health, vice is sickness.”
“Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.”
“One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.”
“Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.”
“There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.”
“The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.”
“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.”
“Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.”
“There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.”
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
“In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.”
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.”
“There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year. The second earns 12%, but all the excess cash must be reinvested - there's never any cash. It reminds me of the guy who looks at all of his equipment and says, 'There's all of my profit.' We hate that kind of business.”