“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance”
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Wise Quotes — page 41 of 916
“It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
“There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.”
“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”
“Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”
“The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.”
“Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.”
“When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter”
“I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.”
“What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.”
“Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
“God's Word is the only reliable guideline for living. Following your heart, without the leading of His Word and His Spirit, will lead you to His judgement.”
“Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.”
“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”
“If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.”
“There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.”
“Remember, your mind is your greatest asset, so be careful what you put into it.”
“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”