“There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
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Wise Quotes — page 32 of 916
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
“I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.”
“No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.”
“Strategy is figuring out what not to do.”
“The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.”
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.”
“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.”
“Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.”
“Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.”
“The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.”
“Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.”
“Blushing is the color of virtue.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.”
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.”