“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
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Wise Quotes — page 151 of 916
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
“Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom. It's a very blurry line, and it's getting more blurry all the time.”
“Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.”
“I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?”
“To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.”
“I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.”
“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”
“Tell truth, and shame the devil.”
“Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.”
“To teach is to learn twice.”
“A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.”
“Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.”
“Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.”
“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”
“If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.”
“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”
“Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.”
“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”
“The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection”