“Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.”
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Wise Quotes — page 55 of 916
“Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.”
“Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.”
“The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.”
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
“When two forces unite, their efficiency double.”
“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”
“Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.”
“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”
“Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.”
“It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.”
“Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”
“The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.”
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”
“Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.”
“What you see is evidence of what you believe.”
“The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.”