“I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?”
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Wise Quotes — page 192 of 916
“The Soul should always stand ajar.”
“Do not try to seem wise to others.”
“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”
“A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.”
“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.”
“If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.”
“Facts speak plainer than words”
“Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.”
“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
“Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.”
“As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.”
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.”
“My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.”
“Simplicity of approach is always best.”