Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 148

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
 Pericles
The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.
The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
 Li Peng
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
 Willard Van Orman Quine
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
 Arnold Palmer
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.
 Lewis Thomas
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
 Chiwetel Ejiofor
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.
Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.
 Gary Paul Nabhan
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
 Johan Huizinga
Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
 John Chafee
If you want to go east, don't go west.
 Ramakrishna
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
 William Hurt
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
 Venerable Bede
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
 Katherine Mansfield