“When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.”
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Wise Quotes — page 120 of 916
“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
“Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”
“The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.”
“An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.”
“The innocent is the person who explains nothing”
“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
“Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
“Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.”
“The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.”
“It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.”
“Facts are many, but the truth is one.”
“He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.”
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
“The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.”
“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.”
“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
“Teach principles not formulas.”