Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 154

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.
 Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
A road to a friend's house is never long.
 Ann Richards
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.
The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.
 Louis O. Kelso
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
 Michael King
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
 Jack Kornfield
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.
 Ellen Swallow Richards
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
Be wise; let prudence dictate all your counsels; preserve peace with all men, if possible; stand by the Constitution of your country; observe its principles; and above all, show yourselves men of God, worthy citizens.
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
 Sophocles
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
 George Marshall
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
 Mary Parker Follett
Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
 Kurt Weill
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don\'t know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it\'s not. It\'s a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
 Ann Patchett
NVC enhances inner communication by helping us translate negative internal messages into feelings and needs. Our ability to distinguish our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.
 Marshall B. Rosenberg