“The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.”
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Wise Quotes — page 16 of 916
“To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”
“Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”
“The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.”
“I think very fundamentally to being Libertarian is not having a social agenda. I accept who you are and the life that you live as long as your life does not adversely affect mine.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
“The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”
“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.”
“Vision without execution is daydreaming.”
“Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.”
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
“The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.”