“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
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Wise Quotes — page 143 of 916
“Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.”
“Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to the English, "Have sweet dreams," the French implied that the sleeper was not a passive spectator, a captive audience, but had some control over and must accept some responsiblity for his or her dreaming. Moreover, a "fine" dream had much wider connotations than a "sweet" one.”
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
“I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.”
“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...”
“If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.”
“Wisdom is knowing how little we know.”
“Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.”
“Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)”
“The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.”
“Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside.”
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
“There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”
“I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.”
“Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.”
“Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.”
“It is important in this journey to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. Body shaming and hurtful tactics will never get the job done.”
“Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.”
“The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.”