“Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.”
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Wise Quotes — page 63 of 916
“Memory is the scribe of the soul.”
“The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.”
“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.”
“If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.”
“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
“And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.”
“What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”
“Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.”
“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
“You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.”
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.”
“The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.”
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
“We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”
“If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.”
“I feel guilty when people say I'm the greatest on the scene. What's good or bad doesn't matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn't mean a damn, it's your talents and feelings that matter. You've got to know much more than just the technicalities of notes; you've got to know what goes between the notes.”
“Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.”