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Wise Quotes — page 26 of 916
“Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.”
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
“The purpose is not that you might get more of the Holy Spirit, but that the Holy Spirit might get more of you.”
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
“At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose”
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
“Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
“Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.”
“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.”
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
“You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.”
“The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.”
“Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.”
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
“When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.”
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”