“Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.”
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Wise Quotes — page 131 of 916
“A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
“Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.”
“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.”
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.”
“You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.”
“You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.”
“The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.”
“Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.”
“Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.”
“To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.”
“Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.”
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
“Life is a festival only to the wise.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”