“I'm not a conscious rapper, all those things we talk about, the struggle, the pain, the outlook to the future, keep your head up. I try to put all those positive things into a regular human character, which is myself.”
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Wise Quotes — page 197 of 916
“Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
“Money and art are far apart.”
“See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things”
“Wise men hear and see as little children do.”
“To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!”
“Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.”
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
“People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.”
“Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.”
“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”
“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”
“The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look and feel about you. The way that you will experience and feel about yourself is actually determined by how YOU look at and think about THEM. Whatever we think about others is really like sending a message about ourselves to our self.”
“An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.”
“It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.”
“By far the best proof is experience.”
“One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.”