“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”
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Wise Quotes — page 80 of 916
“You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”
“The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.”
“A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.”
“You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.”
“So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.”
“Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
“The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
“Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.”
“You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.”
“You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night, go crazy, and throw it all away.”
“We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are”
“The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.”
“I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.”
“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves.”