“Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.”
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Wise Quotes — page 145 of 916
“The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]”
“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.”
“Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.”
“It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.”
“The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.”
“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”
“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.”
“Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.”
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”
“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.”
“Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.”
“Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.”
“Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”
“The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
“There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.”
“Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.”
“I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.”
“And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.”