“He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.”
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Wise Quotes — page 93 of 916
“The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.”
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
“To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.”
“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”
“The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.”
“If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.”
“Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.”
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
“Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.”
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
“A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.”
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
“A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.”
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.”
“We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.”
“Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.”
“Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.”