“If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.”
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Wise Quotes — page 99 of 916
“All a man can betray is his conscience.”
“Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!”
“People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often”
“madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom”
“To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.”
“Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey”
“Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
“Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.”
“When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.”
“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
“The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.”
“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”
“Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.”
“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".”
“Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.”
“To know and not do, is to not yet know.”