Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 8
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Robert Foster Bennett
No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.
Louis O. Kelso
To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.
Josef Pieper
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel
Ivan Turgenev
We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
John Webster
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
Richard Leakey
They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.
Gerhard Schroder
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
Rupert Friend
You are designed to reinvent and re-create yourself, over and over again. And, you are here-whether you want to acknowledge it or not; whether you even know it or not-for the evolution of your own soul.
Debbie Ford
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Love as Thought is Truth.
Love as Action is Right Conduct.
Love as Understanding is Peace.
Love as Feeling is Non-violence.
