“The more I learn, the less I realize I know.”
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Wise Quotes — page 149 of 916
“What people believe prevails over the truth.”
“But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.”
“A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.”
“Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
“You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.”
“Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths”
“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
“There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
“I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.”
“I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.”
“I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.”
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
“Perfection is the willingness to be imperfect.”
“Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it. Those who know (the Tao) are not extensively learned; the extensively learned do not know it.”
“Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.”
“Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”
“Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.”