Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 109

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
 Franz Grillparzer
We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.
 Nirmala Srivastava
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
 Marvin J. Ashton
He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
 Wilhelm Grimm
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
 Luther Standing Bear
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.
There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.
 Joy Harjo
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it.
... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.
 Leslie Jamison
I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.
 Iain Sinclair
For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not ­having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.
 Ellen Pompeo
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
 Dag Hammarskjold
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
 Rasheed Ogunlaru
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.