A Quote by Edmund Morris
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
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The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
When you have a child, you really understand what it means to love, to have something to be selfless for. I think that elevates you. It elevates your consciousnesses, your level of thinking, your art and the way you approach it - everything.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Brave doesn't spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn't put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn't cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn't pit people against one another. That's what fear does.
I've gotten a lot of people saying. 'That is awesome. You're so brave.' I hate when people say brave. I'm not brave. I'm just living my life. Why is that brave?
Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.
The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
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