Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 49

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
 Christiane Northrup
Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.
 Joy Bryant
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
 Eli Pariser
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of the team, it is never new information.
 Andy Stanley
Friendship isn\'t a big thing - it\'s a million little things.
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
 Unknown
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
 Thomas Hardy
But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.
 John Chamberlain
Now you must practice to see something without allowing any thought to rise. Then you start sucking through your Spirit the beauty, the glory, the fragrance of a flower.
 Nirmala Srivastava
You only lose what you cling to.
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.
 Anthony Weiner
And that sort of victimization narrative is something we shouldn't contribute to. On the other hand, we have to acknowledge that there is a radical element in Islam, jihadism, that needs to be called by name and needs to be confronted.
When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.
Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.
 Cyprian
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
 Marvin Minsky