“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.”
Wise feeling
Wise Quotes — page 58 of 916
“It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.”
“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.”
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.”
“Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.”
“We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.”
“We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”
“I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'”
“it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.”
“Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.”
“One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.”
“Seek truth from facts.”
“To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.”
“Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.”
“I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.”
“A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.”
“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
“I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school.”
“One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.”