“The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.”
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Wise Quotes — page 178 of 916
“I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."”
“A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.”
“When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”
“No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.”
“A person is not learned nor wise because he talks much; the person who is patient, free from hatred and fear, that person is called learned and wise.”
“Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.”
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.”
“The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.”
“There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.”
“A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.”
“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.”
“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.”
“Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.”
“You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.”
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
“I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.”
“Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.”
“The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.”