Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 34
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.
It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Philip Arthur Fisher
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?
Hubert H. Humphrey
Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience.
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.
Franklin P. Adams
But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction.
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Akhenaton
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.
