Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 153

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.
 RuPaul
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.
 Nicholas G. Carr
At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.
 Sebastian Vettel
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
 James F. Cooper
Wisdom begins at the end.
 Daniel Webster
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.
 Michio Kaku
Take advantage of this human boat; 
Free yourself from sorrow\'s mighty stream! 
This vessel will be later hard to find.
The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!
Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!
 Shantideva
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
 Allen Ginsberg
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.
 Hasan of Basra
We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not.
 Douglas Rushkoff
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
 Sophocles
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
 Michel Hazanavicius
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
 Tryon Edwards
The answer to old age is to keep one\'s mind busy and to go on with one\'s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
 Leon Edel
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
 Don Shula