“If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.”
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Wise Quotes — page 209 of 916
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
“We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order. [Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]”
“The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.”
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
“Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.”
“Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.”
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
“A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.”
“Believe nothing, No matter where you read it, Or who has said it, Not even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.”
“He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.”
“A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.”
“The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it”
“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”
“Those who do not know history will forever remain children”
“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.”
“When you are handed something instead of having to work for it, you don't respect it as much.”
“Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.”
“It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.”
“I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.”