“Nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
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Wise Quotes — page 125 of 916
“People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.”
“To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
“Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.”
“Truth is the first of jewels.”
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
“Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.”
“Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.”
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe”
“So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.”
“I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.”
“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”
“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”
“The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.”
“Education is not something to prepare you for life; it is a continuous part of life.”
“Oppression makes a wise man mad.”
“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”