Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 18
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus
Genius is nothing but continued attention.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.
J. M. Coetzee
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Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.
Dallin H. Oaks
Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.
Sonia Sotomayor
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.
Lou Rawls
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our ability to think clearly. Anger and attachment are emotions that distort our view of reality.
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
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All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.
Michael Moore
