“...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.”
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Wise Quotes — page 160 of 916
“For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”
“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.”
“The wise man once said invest young”
“The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.”
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”
“The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.”
“I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.”
“I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.”
“All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.”
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”
“We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.”
“It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.”