“If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.”
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Wise Quotes — page 92 of 916
“Those things that hurt, instruct.”
“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.”
“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”
“The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.”
“Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”
“Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.”
“If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.”
“Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.”
“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.”
“The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.”
“Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.”
“Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.”
“It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.”
“Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.”
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”
“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
“Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.”