“I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.”
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Wise Quotes — page 139 of 916
“The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.”
“How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?”
“I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.”
“The opposite of compromise is character.”
“Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.”
“Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.”
“I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.”
“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”
“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”
“Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.”
“Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.”
“It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.”
“When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.”
“You can't get old without living.”
“You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.”
“The coward only threatens when he is safe.”
“He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.”