"You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant."

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Source : Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

Booker T. Washington

#Character Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.”
“Inspiration comes from the act of writing.”

Source : "I find inspiration through writing". www.swissinfo.ch. July 6, 2008.
“The patriarchal society has made women believe, first of all, you're only valid and valuable when you're young.”

Source : Source: www.sheknows.com
“From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.”
“I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.”
“When you photograph a lot of women, you get to know things.”
“If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?”
“A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.”

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