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Wise Quotes — page 42 of 916
“I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.”
“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”
“When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed out, a foolish man will not only disregard the advice but rather repeat the same error.”
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”
“You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.”
“If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.”
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”
“Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.”
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”
“Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.”
“Place principle above all else.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”