Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 141

The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God\'s absolute ownership should follow.
The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.
 Stephen F Olford
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
 Alfred Lord Tennyson
No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!
 Hester Lynch Piozzi
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
 William Gilmore Simms
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
 Donna Jo Napoli
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?
 Alex Blackwell
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.
 Robert Bloch
If a person doesn't have a balance then he cannot achieve his ascent.
 Nirmala Srivastava
The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.
 Umar
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
 Lionel Blue
I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.
 Steven Strogatz
Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.
 James Hervey
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
 Garrett Hedlund
It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.
 George Jackson
Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.
 Cameron Diaz
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.