Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 52

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
 Natalie Clifford Barney
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
 Marge Piercy
It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
 David Crosby
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
 Hugh Prather
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
 Thomas J. Watson
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
 Arthur Erickson
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?
 Nikki Sixx
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
 Phillip E. Johnson
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.
 David McCullough
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
 Alec Waugh
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.
 Nate Parker
I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.
 Harry Reid
Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.
 Richard Carlson
Each time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.
 Suzy Kassem
The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.
The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return.
 Jim Loehr
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
 Brian O'Driscoll