Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 103

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn\'t ability that counts, but authority.
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
 Barry Hughart
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.
 Gabrielle Roth
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to stand up and voice your opinion.
 Poppy King
Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
 H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
 Doris Lessing
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
If not you, then who? If not now, then when?
 Andrzej Kolikowski
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
 Lucy Punch
A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.
 Hugh Howey
Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
 Bette Davis
Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.
 Paramahansa Yogananda
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
 Daniel Kahneman
Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.
Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.
 Tite Kubo
Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
 Alex Haley