“All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.”
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Wise Quotes — page 188 of 916
“Men of cold passions have quick eyes.”
“Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.”
“Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.”
“Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.”
“Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.”
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”
“There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.”
“Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.”
“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”
“He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.”
“Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.”
“It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.”
“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”
“Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.”
“To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.”
“The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.”
“Insight without action is worthless.”