Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 158

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
 Teresa of Ávila
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.
We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
 Zachary Quinto
The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.
 Angela Carter
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
 Duke of Wellington
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
 Samuel Beckett