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Wise Quotes — page 31 of 916
“If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.”
“Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.”
“What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.”
“Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.”
“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”
“The most powerful moral influence is example.”
“Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.”
“Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?”
“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
“When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.”
“Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. . . . It is more important to pave the way for a child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts that he is not ready to assimilate.”
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
“The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.”
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
“Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.”
“There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.”
“All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.”