Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 26
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Adela Florence Nicolson
Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.
Rollo May
Accept the present moment without judgement.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
Hanif Kureishi
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
Eric Maisel
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.
Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.
Joseph Hall
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.
Control your destiny or somebody will.
Jack Welch
Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
Cheryl Richardson
Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.
Max De Pree
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
William Cowper
