“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.”
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Wise Quotes — page 14 of 916
“For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do.”
“You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.”
“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
“Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.”
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
“A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin”
“Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.”
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
“A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.”
“Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.”
“The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.”
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”
“Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.”
“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”
“People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.”
“Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave”
“A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.”