Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 13

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him. If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.
 Ibn Ata Allah
The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
 Kenneth Scott Latourette
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
 Mencius
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
 Will Durant
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
 Lewis B. Smedes
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
 Paul Thomas Anderson
Don\'t worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
 Louisa May Alcott
Only acknowledge your limitations for the purpose of overcoming them.
 Randy Gage
Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations
 Aleister Crowley
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
 Francesco Guicciardini
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
 Michael Crichton