Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 147
The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.
Matt Shea
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
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Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.
Ishida Mitsunari
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.
Johan Galtung
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.
Tariq Ramadan
One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.
Andy Andrews
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
