“That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.”
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Wise Quotes — page 132 of 916
“I believe in corporations. They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization. But I believe they should be so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.”
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
“Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.”
“It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.”
“I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.”
“If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.”
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”
“Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.”
“Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.”
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”
“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”
“Great men are never cruel without necessity.”
“A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.”
“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”
“The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.”
“It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.”