“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
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Wise Quotes — page 175 of 916
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“A good example has twice the value of good advice”
“Order is the key to all problems.”
“Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.”
“Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?”
“Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.”
“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different”
“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
“Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.”
“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”
“I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.”
“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
“[Mathematics] is an independent world created out of pure intelligence.”
“Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.”
“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”