“The truth needs so little rehearsal.”
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Wise Quotes — page 158 of 916
“Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.”
“The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.”
“Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.”
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
“Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.”
“Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else.”
“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
“When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.”
“Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
“There never was a good knife made of bad steel.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”
“There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.”
“It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.”