“If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.”
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Wise Quotes — page 94 of 916
“Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.”
“Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.”
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.”
“In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.”
“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.”
“Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.”
“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”
“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”
“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.”
“The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.”
“If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.”
“An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.”
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”
“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].”
“In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.”
“Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.”