“People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
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Wise Quotes — page 228 of 916
“When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.”
“The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.”
“Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.”
“Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.”
“Temperament is the thermometer of character.”
“Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.”
“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.”
“That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”
“The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.”
“A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.”
“I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.”
“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
“It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.”
“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.”
“Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.”
“Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority.”
“Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.”
“No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.”
“Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities.”