Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 51

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
 Wes Jackson
A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.
We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.
 Mary E. Hunt
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.
 Vanna Bonta
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
 William F. Buckley, Jr.
A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge
The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.
 Philip Robinson
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.
 Russell M. Nelson
The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.
 Laurence Sterne
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
 Aeschylus
I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.
 Chris Cleave
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
 Bayard Rustin
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.
 Camryn Manheim
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
 Linus Torvalds