Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 150

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
 Warren Beatty
Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.
 Max Carver
Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.
 Noah Webster
It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
 Esther Smith
We think it would be wise in you to try to git [sic] influence by offering to print a paper in favor of the government as you know we are all friends to the Constitution yea true friends to that Country for which our fathers bled.
Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely.
All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
 Edgar Degas
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
 J. William Schickel
For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.
 Anthony Mackie
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.
Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
 Ariel Durant
Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.
 Michael B. Jordan
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
 William Cowper
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
 Sinclair B. Ferguson
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
 Lee Iacocca