Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 76

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don\'t learn the importance of anything until it\'s snatched from our hands.
We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.
 Malala Yousafzai
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
 Sidney Hook
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
 Polycarp
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
 Alana Stewart
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection.
 Thomas a Kempis
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
 Jacob Bronowski
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
 James K. A. Smith
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
 John Burroughs
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.
Each day provides its own gifts.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
 Charles Kuralt
Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
 Guy Finley
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.
 Mark Van Doren
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
 Barbara Ann Kipfer