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Wise Quotes — page 136 of 916
“Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.”
“He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.”
“The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”
“Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
“Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.”
“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.”
“Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden.”
“The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.”
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
“I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.”
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”
“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”
“The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.”
“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
“How do children learn to correct their mistakes? By watching how you correct yours. How do children learn to overcome their failures? By watching how you overcome yours. How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness? By watching you forgive yourself.”
“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.”