“The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.”
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Wise Quotes — page 21 of 916
“Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.”
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
“It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.”
“The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.”
“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."”
“Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.”
“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.”
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”
“Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.”
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”
“The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.”
“I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.”
“Leadership does not mean domination.”
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”