“It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.”
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Wise Quotes — page 59 of 916
“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”
“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”
“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”
“Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.”
“Great men have the nature of a child.”
“There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.”
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
“Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision”
“The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.”
“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
“There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.”
“No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.”
“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”
“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
“The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.”
“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
“Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
“The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings”
“I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'”