“No man can be wise on an empty stomach.”
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Wise Quotes — page 210 of 916
“An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development”
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
“Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.”
“A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.”
“I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.”
“Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.”
“The best teachers are the best storytellers.”
“To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.”
“A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.”
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
“I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.”
“The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.”
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
“There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.”
“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
“It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.”
“Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.”
“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
“Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.”