“Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
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Wise Quotes — page 221 of 916
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
“I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.”
“The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.”
“You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.”
“Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.”
“It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.”
“Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.”
“Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.”
“Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure”
“A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.”
“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
“The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.”
“It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.”
“Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.”
“I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.”
“Your Mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely”
“If you want to be rich the rule of thumb is to teach others how to be rich.”
“You won't learn if you think you already know everything.”