“Finding faults is for those with tired minds.”
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Wise Quotes — page 138 of 916
“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”
“The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.”
“Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”
“An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer”
“Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?”
“Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.”
“The sound of water says what I think.”
“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
“Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.”
“We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.”
“It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”
“A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.”
“Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.”
“Dharma is not upheld by talking about it. Dharma is upheld by living in harmony with it.”
“One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.”
“Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.”
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”