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Wise Quotes — page 172 of 916
“The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.”
“By the work one knows the workman.”
“A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.”
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”
“Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.”
“People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.”
“The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.”
“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.”
“That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.”
“All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.”
“But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they fly and their huge wings alternately gliding and flapping as they maneuver through the trees. Athena's owl of wisdom and Merlin's companion, Archimedes, were screech owls surely, not this bird with the glassy gaze, restless on the bough, nothing but blood on its mind.”
“Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.”
“Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.”
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
“Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.”
“We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.”
“Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.”
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”