“When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.”
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Wise Quotes — page 162 of 916
“There will always be a easy path and a right path.”
“When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.”
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
“Time is the great art of man.”
“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”
“Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.”
“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
“Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”
“Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.”
“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”
“A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”
“I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.”
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
“There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.”
“The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.”
“Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.”
“Let your desires be ruled by reason.”
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
“Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.”