There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 179
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.
Harry Reid
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
Dan Simmons
Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
William Cowper
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
Wallace Stegner
No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death does not exist.'
Nikos Kazantzakis
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Bede Griffiths
I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.
Edith Wharton
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
Diane Duane
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas
He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.
James Gleick
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Susan Orlean
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
