“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
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Wise Quotes — page 29 of 916
“A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.”
“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
“An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.”
“When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.”
“The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”
“All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.”
“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
“How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No great man has ever wise-cracked his way to greatness. Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself. No one can multiply himself by himself. He must first divide himself and give himself to the service of all, thus placing himself within all others through acts of thoughtfulness and service.”
“I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.”
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.”
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.”
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
“Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases”
“Never complain and never explain.”
“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.”
“To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.”
“Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”