Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 133

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
 Robert Farrar Capon
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
 Charles de Lint
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
 Zoroaster
For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.
 Rio Ferdinand
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.
 John Vanbrugh
I don't think I'd be happy if I were satisfied. I enjoy challenge, and I wouldn't say that I'm an ambitious person career-wise or financially, really. I would like to travel more comfortably, but that's really about all I need.
 Jason Isbell
There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.
 Anatoly Chubais
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
 Chuck D
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
 Charles Dudley Warner
I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.
 Aeriel Miranda
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.
 Henry Ossawa Tanner
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.
 Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.