“The whole world, from the least to the greatest, must know the truth, so that man may understand the great laws that govern his life. He must learn to control his own destiny, to heal his own body and bring happiness to his own soul.”
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Wise Quotes — page 230 of 916
“I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'”
“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.”
“What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.”
“Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.”
“The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.”
“The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.”
“A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.”
“An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.”
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.”
“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.”
“Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.”
“It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.”
“The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.”
“I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.”
“Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.”
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”
“Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”
“Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.”
“Let us not unlearn what we have already learned”