“Never mistake legibility for communication.”
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Wise Quotes — page 50 of 916
“No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.”
“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.”
“High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”
“I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.”
“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”
“The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.”
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
“The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.”
“Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?”
“A path is made by walking on it.”
“A man of courage is also full of faith.”
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”
“One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
“If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.”
“My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.”
“He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.”
“Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.”