“The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.”
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Wise Quotes — page 127 of 916
“The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.”
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
“Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.”
“The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.”
“The best director is the one you don't see.”
“I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.”
“Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.”
“Knowledge is limited.”
“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”
“The soul never thinks without a picture.”
“It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.”
“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”
“The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.”
“And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.”
“I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.”
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“While you teach, you learn.”