“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
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Wise Quotes — page 177 of 916
“I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.”
“If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.”
“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
“It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.”
“..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: 'Every second you spend thinking about someone elses dreams you take time away from your own.'"”
“In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.”
“Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.”
“If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.”
“A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.”
“Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.”
“Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.”
“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.”
“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.”
“Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.”
“Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.”
“Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.”
“Seeing the small is called clarity.”