Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 44

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
 Lord Chesterfield
Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
 Jean de la Bruyere
Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.
 Anne Sexton
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
 Friedrich Schiller
Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.
 Louis O. Kelso
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
Fiction that does not acknowledge this at least tacitly is not true.
 Marilynne Robinson
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.
 Donald Glover
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
 Karl Rove
I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.
 Ray Winstone
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
We are paralyzed from advancing as a society, advancing as a culture because so many of the dominantly influential people in our country are actual idiots who don't even have the ability to understand common sense when they hear it.
Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.
 Jonah Hill
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
 Beverly Cleary
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.
 Joseph Paxton
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.