“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
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Wise Quotes — page 176 of 916
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.”
“Wisdom is the health of the soul.”
“I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either”
“So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.”
“Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.”
“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.”
“Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.”
“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”
“Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.”
“Language is the dress of thought.”
“The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.”
“Common knowledge, but important nonetheless”
“[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.”
“Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”
“Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.”
“No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.”
“The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.”
“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
“Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."”