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.
CALVIN COOLIDGEIn life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.
More Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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America has but one main problem — the character of the men and women it shall produce.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
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What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.
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Anytime you don’t want anything you get it.
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We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn’t have any more.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
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Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.
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Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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The final solution for unemployment is work.
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The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.
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