“One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.”
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Wise Quotes — page 89 of 916
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
“It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level.”
“Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.”
“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
“What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.”
“I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.”
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”
“Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.”
“I prefer nothing, unless it is true.”
“We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”
“Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.”
“You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.”
“The way you walk, that's me The way you talk, that's me The way you got your hair up, did you forget that's me? & the voice in the speaker right now, that's me, that's me & the voice in your ear, that's me”
“The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.”
“Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.”
“Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.”
“The value of a promise is the cost to you of keeping your word.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”