“Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.”
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Wise Quotes — page 148 of 916
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
“We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.”
“The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
“By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.”
“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”
“Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.”
“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”
“Be careful with what you say. A girl remembers everything.”
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”
“James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.”
“What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.”
“Truth suffers, but never dies.”
“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”
“Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.”
“Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.”
“Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."”
“One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.”
“There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.”
“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”