Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 111

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

John Wyndham

What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marian Wright Edelman

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

James Alan Gardner

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Wharton

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

J. M. Barrie

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

William Shenstone

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Mignon McLaughlin

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

John Wycliffe

Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove

Madonna Ciccone

Wisdom begins at the end.

Daniel Webster

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.

As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

M. C. Escher

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes

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If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Mark Foley

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

Hafez