“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
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Wise Quotes — page 211 of 916
“Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.”
“An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.”
“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.”
“Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.”
“The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.”
“The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.”
“What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop.”
“I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.”
“The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.”
“There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.”
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”
“Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.”
“It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.”
“I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.”
“A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.”
“All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, `This is the only area where I let down.` Not true. Every let down affects the rest. Not to think so is naive.”
“Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening”
“I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.”
“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”