Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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