Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 90

Don\'t stumble over something behind you.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
All is well that ends well
 Emily Rodda
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
 Pythagoras
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
 J. Cole
Satan often paints sin with virtue\'s colors.
Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.
 Thomas Brooks
First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
 Bodhidharma
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
 Gerry Spence
I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.
 David Shapiro
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.
 Frans de Waal
A jug fills drop by drop.
As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.