Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 9

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
 William Hague
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.
 Demi Moore
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
 Sophocles
...she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.
 Jeff Lindsay
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.
 J. I. Packer
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
 Russell Lynes
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
 John Robert Seeley
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
 William Ralph Inge
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
 David Rockefeller
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.
 Christopher Reeve
This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
 Heraclitus