“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
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Wise Quotes — page 7 of 916
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.”
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”
“What gets measured gets managed.”
“It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.”
“Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.”
“We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.”
“When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.”
“You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.”
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want”
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
“One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.”
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
“Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.”
“When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.”