“Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking”
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Wise Quotes — page 233 of 916
“The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.”
“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
“Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.”
“There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.”
“I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.”
“One handles truths like dynamite.”
“How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.”
“Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.”
“Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.”
“The wise do not investigate such silliness.”
“People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.”
“Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.”
“True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.”
“You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”
“If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.”
“If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.”
“There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.”
“All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it”
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”