“Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.”
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Wise Quotes — page 154 of 916
“I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.”
“You will not become a saint through other people's sins.”
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
“As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.”
“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
“Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.”
“Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed.”
“Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”
“Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.”
“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
“Morality is truth in full bloom.”
“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”
“Men are respectable only as they respect.”
“As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.”
“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
“The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.”
“As was his language so was his life.”
“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”