“The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.”
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Wise Quotes — page 163 of 916
“A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.”
“The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.”
“In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.”
“I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.”
“If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with simplistic, it’s how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.”
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”
“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”
“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.”
“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.”
“Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.”
“The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.”
“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”
“It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.”
“The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.”
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.”
“Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.”