“Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)”
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Wise Quotes — page 218 of 916
“Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.”
“Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
“If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.”
“It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America.”
“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”
“Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.”
“The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.”
“One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.”
“America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.”
“The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.”
“To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.”
“A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.”
“In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.”
“When we really want to master anything, we must enter into the spirit of it. And when we enter into the spirit of something, what we're really doing is reproducing in ourselves the same qualities that whoever created it had.”
“Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.”
“Every hour of useful work is precious.”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.”