Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 72

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
 Aleister Crowley
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.
 Margery Allingham
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.
 K.J. Parker
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
Pardoning Snowden would be a powerful way for the president to acknowledge that the government did wrong, kept us in the dark, acted unconstitutionally. And but for the actions of Edward Snowden, we would still be in a very dark place.
 Anthony Romero
It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!
 Nirmala Srivastava
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
 Gary A. Kowalski
There are no free lunches on welfare.
There are no free lunches on welfare.
 Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.
 Jeffrey Eugenides
Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.
 Frank Wilczek
To appreciate nonsense you must first acquire wisdom, then compromise the two; only then will the fool understand you, and believe himself to be wise.
 Ernest Chapman
Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
 Sonia Sotomayor
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
 Paloma Faith
Gorbachev's stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union.
 Murray Rothbard
In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
 Kamisese Mara
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.