“Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences”
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Wise Quotes — page 12 of 916
“My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.”
“The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.”
“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
“The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.”
“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.”
“The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.”
“Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.”
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
“Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.”
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
“The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.”
“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
“I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.”
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”