“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.”
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Wise Quotes — page 156 of 916
“"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?”
“[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.”
“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
“If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.”
“As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.”
“Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.”
“Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!”
“The more certain our knowledge the less we know.”
“Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.”
“The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.”
“Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”
“The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.”
“Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.”
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.”
“There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.”
“To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.”
“An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.”
“Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.”
“Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...”