Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 112

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
 John Bercow
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
 Polycarp
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
 Robert Boyce
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
 Plautus
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.
 Kedar Joshi
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
 Said Nursi
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.
 Marya Hornbacher
If we don\'t acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we\'ll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.
 T.I.
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.
Acknowledge people, not their jobs.
 Joey Reiman
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
 Jeremy Bentham
I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
 Doris Lessing
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
 Epicurus
I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.
 Emily Haines