“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
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Wise Quotes — page 150 of 916
“It's better to understand something than to memorize something.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
“Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.”
“The time to make up your mind about people is never.”
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
“It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.”
“A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work”
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
“Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.”
“The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.”
“I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.”
“Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.”
“My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.”
“I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
“If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.”
“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”