“Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.”
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Wise Quotes — page 76 of 916
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”
“The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.”
“'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.”
“Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.”
“My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.”
“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
“Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.”
“90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.”
“The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.”
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
“Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.”
“Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.”
“For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.”
“Life is a continuous process of adjustment.”
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.”
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”