We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 100
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.
Stefan Zweig
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You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
William Jennings Bryan
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.
Louise Bogan
Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods. But we are idols and we're all gods, so to speak, and I think that celebrities should acknowledge their responsibility, because we are in a position to help.
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
Victoria Osteen
Honesty is the best policy.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.
Archilochus
We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
Henrik Ibsen
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
Brian Greene
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'Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society,' and I'm sure in politics, you would have to acknowledge that it has worked.
