“No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.”
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Wise Quotes — page 227 of 916
“I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.”
“Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on”
“We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it”
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
“Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.”
“I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided by a higher principle. Practicality has its place but only within a framework of values, which all men of good will share.”
“The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.”
“Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.”
“The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.”
“Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.”
“The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the "back to nature" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom.”
“Elegance is inferior to virtue.”
“We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”
“I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.”
“When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.”
“It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.”
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
“Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.”
“Every word you add dilutes the sentence.”