Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra -
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey -
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
Saint Basil -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Randy Quaid -
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
Yoko Ono -
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Under this Constitution the boundaries of freedom have been enlarged, the foundations of order and peace have been strengthened, and the growth of our people in all the better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants.
James A. Garfield -
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
Zechariah Chafee -
Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
Nadia Comaneci -
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
Bill Owens -
Wisdom precludes boldness.
Patrick Rothfuss