“We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)”
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Wise Quotes — page 189 of 916
“Honesty is always the best policy.”
“A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.”
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
“I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.”
“Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.”
“You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.”
“I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.”
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
“Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.”
“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”
“Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.”
“Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.”
“Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.”
“The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.”
“Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.”
“Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.”
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
“Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.”