Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 103

I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.
I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.
 Thao Nguyen
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
 Ellen Glasgow
My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.
 Sonja Sohn
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
 George Grosz
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Appearances are often deceiving.
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.
Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who\'s watching my movie.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
 Donald Glover
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
 Mark Sheppard
I'm proud to acknowledge my debt to the 'Reverend Satchelmouth' ... He is the beginning and the end of music in America
 Bing Crosby
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.
 Stephen Spender
But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
 Wilkie Collins
Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.
 Diane Greene
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense.  It\'s easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.
Sight is not absolutely essential in this process, but we use sight because it is the dominant sense. It's easiest to interrupt the flow of thought in sense perception and move the mind beyond sense perception with sight.
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
 Thornton Wilder