Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 102

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.
 Sun Bu'er
I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.
The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.
And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
 David Brooks
Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.
 Rashida Jones
I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
 Harold Pinter
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.
 Gian-Carlo Rota
Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.
 Carla Bruni
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
Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.
 Koichi Kawana
Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.
 Benjamin Whichcote
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
 William Ames
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.
The Dalai Lama acknowledges that he's met Westerners who to some extent are clearly Easterners at heart, and he would never want them not to become Buddhists just because they happened to be born in California.
 Pico Iyer
We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.
 Sara Genn