“He told me that it isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 38
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“Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.”
“One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.”
“Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”
“If you don't know what happened behind you, you've no idea of what is happening around you.”
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”
“There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
“Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.”
“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become.”
“Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect.”
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
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