Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 73

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames
The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
 Mark Nepo
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
 Edward McKendree Bounds
My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.
For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successive perception, which allows it to build progressively.
 Dumitru Tepeneag
Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.
 James Hervey
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.
 Mark Regev
We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.
 Robert E. Ornstein
I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.
I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.
 Atul Gawande
You really can change the world if you care enough.
 Marian Wright Edelman
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.
 J. C. Watts
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.
 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
 Robert Southey
All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.
 Alexis Herman
Plato\'s cave is full of freaks.
Plato's cave is full of freaks.
 Jack Johnson
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.