Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 29
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
Alex Haley
Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens.
Yara
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.
Pascal Bruckner
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.
Shakti Gawain
Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.
Hannah More
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
John Knowles
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Stephen Fry
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
Thiruvalluvar
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Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
