“It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.”
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Wise Quotes — page 35 of 916
“You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.”
“The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.”
“Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.”
“History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.”
“It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.”
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
“Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.”
“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.”
“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”
“God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.”
“The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“This above all; to thine own self be true.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“History is written by the winners.”
“An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.”
“We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.”
“If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.”
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”