“One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.”
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Wise Quotes — page 142 of 916
“The important things are always simple.”
“Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.”
“To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.”
“Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.”
“The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.”
“Words are a lens to focus one's mind.”
“My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.”
“Never draw more in the morning than you can erase in the afternoon”
“Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.”
“You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.”
“A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.”
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
“The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.”
“Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.”
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
“Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.”
“It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.”
“Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.”
“I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.”