Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 75

Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.
 Shantideva
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
 Iris Murdoch
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
 Steven Pinker
Of all the gifts that wise Providence grants us to make life full and happy, friendship is the most beautiful.
 Epicurus
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
 Robert M. Pirsig
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
 Diane Duane
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
 Laurence J. Peter
I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
 James Dean
It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom\'s price.
It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
 Baron de Montesquieu
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
 Charles Kuralt
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
 Warren G. Bennis
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.
 John Quincy Adams
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.
 Bruce Barton