“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.”
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Wise Quotes — page 6 of 916
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
“We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.”
“Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?”
“Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.”
“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”
“Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
“A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it”
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
“No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.”
“Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.”
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.”
“You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am”
“You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.”
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”