“They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.”
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Wise Quotes — page 168 of 916
“That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.”
“This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated.”
“If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.”
“Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention "the people," the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it "shall not be infringed."”
“Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.”
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”
“It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.”
“The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.”
“Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life. The calculation of intrinsic value, though, is not so simple. As our definition suggests, intrinsic value is an estimate rather than a precise figure, and it is additionally an estimate that must be changed if interest rates move or forecasts of future cash flows are revised.”
“Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
“To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.”
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.”
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”
“A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.”
“There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.”
“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.”
“The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.”
“And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink”