Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 145
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.
Patty Hearst
When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
Pindar
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.
Ernest Sosa
I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
Charlie Gonzalez
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
Alec Waugh
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
William Lyon Phelps
Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.
Harper Lee
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
Arthur Erickson
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
Claude Bernard
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Philip Zimbardo
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything; I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything; but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
