Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 89
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Angela Carter
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Rob Sheffield
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
Olive Schreiner
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
Dan Ariely
I acknowledge that I have no idea who the hell I am, and I think that's the first step.
Sharon Needles
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplicity. A lesson in melodic grace delivered by as fine a singer-songwriter as any I know.
Rodney Crowell
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
Isaac Newton
If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
George Grosz
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He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
P. G. Wodehouse
