Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 167
As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
Chanakya
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
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The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.
Shirin Ebadi
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Richard Grenier
Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.
Gelett Burgess
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
Sonia Sotomayor
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend.
Rabia Basri
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
Sydney Pollack
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Hafez
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.
Galileo Galilei
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself
Harvey Fierstein
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
