Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 137

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another.
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
 Horace Mann
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
 James Jeans
Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.
 Jerry Wexler
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.
 Mark Regev
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?
Don\'t believe everything you think.
Don't believe everything you think.
 Unknown
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
 Matthew Arnold
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
 Alexander the Great
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
 Charles M. Blow
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The way you learn is by sitting with the Master, as he moves into those states of attention, you feel that and follow him. He generates tremendous energy when he's doing anything. You are taught inwardly.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Here saw I a great oneing betwixt Christ and us, to mine understanding: for when He was in pain, we were in pain.
 Julian of Norwich
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
 Shakti Gawain
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
Fear exists in the process of accumulation and belief in something is part of the accumulative process.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
 Nicolas Chamfort