“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”
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Wise Quotes — page 97 of 916
“Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time”
“Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.”
“Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.”
“It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.”
“When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.”
“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.”
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
“Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.”
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
“Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
“[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did”
“Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable.”
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”
“There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.”
“Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.”
“All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.”
“The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.”