“He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.”
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Wise Quotes — page 65 of 916
“People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.”
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
“The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.”
“Mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
“The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
“Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?”
“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
“First impressions are always unreliable.”
“Understand the difference between being at work and working.”
“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”
“The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours.”
“The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.”
“A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.”
“To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.”
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
“Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.”
“The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.”
“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”