“We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.”
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Wise Quotes — page 74 of 916
“The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.”
“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”
“It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.”
“God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.”
“There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.”
“You can't know too much, but you can say too much.”
“Treat the cause not the effect.”
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”
“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
“It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.”
“Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
“When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.”
“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”
“Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.”
“Character is revealed through action.”
“You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.”