Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 80

I think I would have died if there hadn\'t been the women\'s movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn\'t a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
 Dorothy Allison
Understanding that celebrity derives from and is a result of some form of accomplishment, it's always gratifying to work with individuals who have made some sort of contribution to society.
 Mike Ruiz
The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.
 Martin Haberman
Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.
 Chris Johnson
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.
 Evo Morales
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
 Edvard Munch
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
 Anatole France
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.
 Ingrid Weir
Some people thrive on huge, dramatic change. Some people prefer the slow and steady route. Do what's right for you.
 Julie Morgenstern
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
 Desiderius Erasmus
I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.
I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.
 Juliette Binoche
When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
 Jeff Bridges