Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 62

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.
 Charlotte Bunch
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.
 Diodorus Siculus
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.
 Franz Grillparzer
Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
 Rene Descartes
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
 Gerrit Smith
If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.
Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane
Once you label me you negate me.
 Søren Kierkegaard
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.