Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 156

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
 Baruch Spinoza
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention
 Andy Hargreaves
The trouble is you think you have time.
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.
 Matthieu Ricard
An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.
 Lloyd C. Douglas
The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.
 BrenĂ© Brown
So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.
I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
 Gail Godwin
I\'m so overexposed, I\'m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.
 Vincent de Paul
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.
 Henry Ossawa Tanner
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
What we think, we become.
[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother.
 Augustine Birrell
Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.
 Leon Gorman
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.