“I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.”
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Wise Quotes — page 51 of 916
“The truth is lived, not taught.”
“Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.”
“Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”
“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
“The brain is wider than the sky.”
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
“The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.”
“Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.”
“Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.”
“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”
“My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.”
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
“Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.”
“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”
“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.”