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Wise Quotes — page 19 of 916
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
“The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open”
“If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.”
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”
“The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.”
“You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
“Little minds try to defend everything at once, but sensible people look at the main point only; they parry the worst blows and stand a little hurt if thereby they avoid a greater one. If you try to hold everything, you hold nothing.”
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”
“You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.”
“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.”
“Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.”