“A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.”
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Wise Quotes — page 161 of 916
“I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.”
“True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.”
“Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.”
“There's a huge difference between being a replaceable cog on the assembly line and being the one who is missed, the one with a unique contribution, the one who made a difference.”
“Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.”
“What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
“The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.”
“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.”
“Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.”
“I explain the law of compensation like this: ‘Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time’.”
“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life.”
“I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.”
“Mathematics is the gate and key to science.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.”
“The logo is an identifier but it's also something that stands-in for who you are.”
“Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.”
“My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.”
“Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.”