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Wise Quotes — page 140 of 916
“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".”
“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
“A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.”
“The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.”
“He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.”
“I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.”
“I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.”
“We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.”
“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant. A theory appears to be beautiful or elegant (or simple, if you prefer) when it can be expressed concisely in terms of mathematics we already have. Symmetry exhibits the simplicity. The Foundamental Law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply the phenomenon of the next skin.”
“What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.”
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
“There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.”
“He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.”
“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”
“In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.”
“The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.”
“A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.”
“As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.”