It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 78
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew.
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.
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These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.
John Hume
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.
Lewis B. Smedes
The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.
J. Willard Marriott
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Aeschylus
