“Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.”
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Wise Quotes — page 38 of 916
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
“Don't confuse legibility with communication.”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.”
“That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.”
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.”
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.”
“Be as you wish to seem.”
“It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.”
“I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.”
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
“Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.”
“I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.”