“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
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Wise Quotes — page 25 of 916
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
“Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for.”
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.”
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.”
“Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.”
“A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it”
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
“Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.”
“Life is balance of holding on and letting go.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”
“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”
“The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it”
“Every great person educates themselves.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.”