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Wise Quotes — page 219 of 916
“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”
“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”
“And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.”
“A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.”
“My education was interrupted only by my schooling.”
“The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.”
“Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”
“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.”
“You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.”
“Substance of Bhakti is Surrender and Humility.”
“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
“The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.”
“Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.”
“We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.”
“You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.”
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.”
“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”
“Every novel is a debtor to Homer.”
“I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.”