Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 21

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, \
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted
 Henry Hyde
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
I understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.
 Courtney Thorne Smith
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
 Adlai E. Stevenson
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
 Ai Weiwei
It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.
 Ernest Wood
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.
 Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.
 Alice Miller
Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
You have to acquire a personal peace of mind which comes with understanding.
 Sandy Woodward
If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains
 Bill Johnson
What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.
Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
 Auguste Comte
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
 Kenneth Lee Pike
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
 Ernest Sosa
At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience.
 Bill McDermott