Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 32

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.
 William V. Shannon
The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.
 J. Willard Marriott
I would love to say that I'm a humanist, but I think the word "feminist" still needs to exist to acknowledge that there's still a problem. It's a statement; we're not equal yet. There's still a fight to be fought.
 Erin Maya Darke
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.
 Hermann Bondi
In order to pass into other dimensions you need to really understand what is out there. A teacher of mysticism is able to explain how to deal with these other worlds and universes.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.
 Marcello Malpighi
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.
 Damon Lindelof
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
 Barbara De Angelis
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
 Margot Robbie
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
 Enrico Fermi
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.