“He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.”
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Wise Quotes — page 205 of 916
“It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.”
“If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.”
“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”
“By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.”
“At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.”
“The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.”
“My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'”
“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.”
“Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.”
“The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.”
“I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.”
“Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.”
“One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.”
“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”
“Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.”
“Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.”
“Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.”
“I shall be so brief that I have already finished.”
“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.”