“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
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Wise Quotes — page 8 of 916
“The supreme guide in life is knowledge.”
“The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.”
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”
“There is no beauty without some strangeness”
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.”
“Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.”
“The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.”
“Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.”
“Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.”
“It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.”
“A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.”
“It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”
“Do the right thing because it is right.”
“But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.”
“The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.”
“Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
“Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”