“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.”
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Wise Quotes — page 170 of 916
“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”
“Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.”
“Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.”
“Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.”
“Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”
“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”
“Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight”
“Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.”
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”
“In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.”
“Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.”
“Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.”
“The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.”
“To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.”
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
“Understanding means throwing away your knowledge.”
“Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.”
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.”