“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
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Wise Quotes — page 195 of 916
“There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"”
“The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.”
“For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.”
“Writing is great because in the writing you never have to... First of all you never have to leave your home. And you never have to meet the test of reality when you're writing.”
“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.”
“Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.”
“I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
“Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.”
“Our best thoughts come from others.”
“Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”
“It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.”
“Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.”
“There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.”
“Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .”
“The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.”
“If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.”
“Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.”