Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 41
though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
Evelyn Underhill
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
Sinclair Lewis
I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.
LaMarcus Aldridge
Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population.
Jose Ramos-Horta
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
Immanuel Kant
My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.
Hope Solo
Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.
Jeanette Jenkins
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.
We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.
Thomas Browne
