“The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.”
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Wise Quotes — page 181 of 916
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
“Everyday is a new life to a wise man.”
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
“So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.”
“Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.”
“Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.”
“Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.”
“If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.”
“I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us”
“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
“Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.”
“The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.”
“When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.”
“There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit”
“I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.”
“As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.”
“A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.”
“All of life is a constant education.”
“I would not open windows into men's souls.”