“Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.”
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Wise Quotes — page 146 of 916
“I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.”
“The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.”
“Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“The language of truth is simple.”
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
“In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.”
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”
“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
“There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors and different brushstrokes over the same canvas.”
“Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.”
“He that speaks much, is much mistaken.”
“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance”
“For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.”
“So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.”
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
“The investment game always involves considering both quality and price, and the trick is to get more quality than you pay for in price. It's just that simple.”
“Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.”
“If you want to understand science, you have to understand math. In business, if you're enumerate, you're going to be a klutz. The good thing about business is that you don't have to know any higher math.”