“It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.”
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Wise Quotes — page 79 of 916
“It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.”
“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.”
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
“Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.”
“Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.”
“Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry”
“A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”
“The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.”
“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”
“Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.”
“Do not learn how to react. Learn how to respond.”
“Be thrifty, but not covetous.”
“I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.”
“The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.”
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
“Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.”
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”