“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
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Wise Quotes — page 98 of 916
“Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.”
“You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.”
“I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.”
“All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.”
“Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”
“An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive. He's going to show you how to turn corners where your young friends will show you how to turn right into that wall, you know what I'm saying?”
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
“I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.”
“When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself”
“By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.”
“To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.”
“It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”
“Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.”
“I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“The more you think, the more time you have.”
“Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.”
“Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.”
“The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.”