“The middle path is the way to wisdom”
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Wise Quotes — page 208 of 916
“The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.' If you ask them, 'How are we actually pulling off this movie?', they'll just shrug and go, 'I have absolutely no idea.'”
“The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.”
“All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.”
“Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly”
“Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.”
“To be honest, one must be inconsistent.”
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.”
“We lie by not telling you things...We don't lie by telling you things that aren't true.”
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
“The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.”
“I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.”
“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.”
“True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.”
“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”
“If you correct your mind the rest of your life will fall into place.”
“The wise speak only of what they know”
“The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.”
“Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.”
“It doesn't matter where you come from. It's what you do when you get here.”