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Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 71
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Charles E. Sorensen
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Robert Orben
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.
Al-Ghazali
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
Samael Aun Weor
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry Mayhew
I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
Huston Smith
It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught, "If you always say no to the first temptation, you will not have to worry if you will be able to say no to the second one.
Harold G. Hillam
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.
Thich Thien-An
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
