Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 121
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
Iris Murdoch
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.
Kalup Linzy
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'
My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.
