“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
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Wise Quotes — page 198 of 916
“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”
“Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.”
“When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.”
“For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.”
“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.”
“The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.”
“President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.”
“The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.”
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.”
“A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders." He touched her lightly with two fingers. "Some liars blink. Some stare. Some look away. Some lick their lips. Many coer their mouths just before they tell a lie, as if to hide their deceit. Other signs may be more subtle, but they are always there. A false smile and a true one may look alike, but they are as different as dusk from dawn.”
“We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.”
“Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.”
“Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.”
“Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”
“A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.”
“Wipe your glasses with what you know.”
“It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.”
“A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.”
“The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.”