Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 142
Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.
Randy Gage
Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.
Bill Cowher
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Duke of Wellington
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
Gilles Deleuze
Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.
Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.
Jordan Peterson
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
Al-Kindi
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.
James Surowiecki
You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.
Alexander Turney Stewart
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
Daniel Goleman
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.
Steve Inskeep
