“Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.”
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Wise Quotes — page 66 of 916
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
“All people are the same; only their habits differ.”
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
“I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.”
“If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.”
“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
“An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.”
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
“Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.”
“Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.”
“It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.”
“Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.”
“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
“True men" ... are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.”
“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”
“The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.”
“Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.”
“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”