“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
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Wise Quotes — page 13 of 916
“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.”
“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.”
“In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.”
“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.”
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
“One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.”
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
“If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.”
“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.”
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
“I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.”
“Our role models today 60 years ago would have been examples of what not to be”