Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 6

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?
 Robert Pollok
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.
 Jacob Viner
When you acknowledge God, He will go before you and make the crooked places straight.
When you see a good person, think of becoming like him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.
 Sigmund Brouwer
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
 Cyril Connolly
You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.
 Phil McGraw
I prefer to see with closed eyes.
 Josef Albers
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.
 Gretchen Bleiler
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
 Tryon Edwards
Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.