“What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.”
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Wise Quotes — page 234 of 916
“There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.”
“The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.”
“Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.”
“Of our 49 billion, we haven't moved any to Bitcoin”
“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
“The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.”
“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
“I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.”
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”
“One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.”
“You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.”
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”
“Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.”
“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.”
“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.”
“There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.”
“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”